Selected: CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC)
Name: | MADDEN, PETER |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1827 |
Nature: | New Gothic cathedral. FS laid 14 May (Ascension Day), 1827. Peter Madden named as architect by Reilly. |
Refs: | Terry Reilly, Dear Old Ballina(n.d.), 62 (cited by Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 9 (2006), 147n85 |
Name: | MADDEN, DOMINICK |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1827-1834ca |
Nature: | FS laid Ascension Day, 14 May 1827. 'In course of building' in 1834; completed, apart from tower, by 1837. |
Refs: | H.D. Inglis, Ireland in 1834 (1834), II, 116; J. Binns, Miseries and Beauties of Ireland (1837), I, 361; Thomas P. Kennedy, 'Church Building', History of Irish Catholicism Vol. 5 (1970), 35; Patricia McCarthy & Kevin Mulligan, 'The hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 9 (2006), 100(illus.),132-133(illus.) |
Name: | MURRAY, MARK [2] |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1841 |
Nature: | MM prepares specificaitons for 'groining, plastering, stucco work', carried out by Arthur Canning. |
Refs: | Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 10 (2007), 133 |
Name: | BENSON, JOHN (SIR) |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1842 |
Nature: | Ribbed ceiling. |
Refs: | Catholic Directory (1842), 324; DB 1, 1 Feb 1859, 22 |
Name: | MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1855-58 |
Nature: | Tower & spire. Builder: Canning. |
Refs: | B 12, 11 Mar 1854, 133; 13, 14 Apr 1855, 177; DB 1, Feb 1859, 22; 2, 1 Aug 1860, 313; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 46 |
Name: | CANNING, - |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | New spire built by Canning. |
Refs: | DB 1, 1 Feb 1859, 22 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1891-94;1900 |
Nature: | Windows opened in side chapels (1891),.tiling of sanctuary (1892). Also Lady Altar (1892), Font (1894), communion rails (1893), Holy Family altar (1900), all executed by James Pearse, Dublin. |
Refs: |
Drawings in IAA WH Byrne Collection (2006/142). |
Name: | PEARSE, JAMES, & SONS * |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1892;1893;1894; |
Nature: | Lady altar, 1892; communion rails, 1893; font, 1894; Holy Family altar, 1900. |
Refs: |
Drawings in IAA WH Byrne Collection (2006/142). |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1912 |
Nature: | Painting & decorating |
Refs: | IB 54, 25 May 1912, 320 |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1912? |
Nature: | Mosaic work in sanctuary (walls and possibly pavement). |
Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |
Name: | BYRNE, RALPH HENRY |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | 1931 |
Nature: | Plastering; mosaic work by J.J. O'Hara |
Refs: | IB 73, ? ? 1931, 372 |
Name: | O'CALLAGHAN, JOHN JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLINA, CATHEDRAL OF ST MUIREDACH (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Various works. (Is this a confusion with J.J. McCarthy?) |
Refs: | Obituary of J.J.O'C in IB 47, 16 Dec 1905, 918 |