Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1869
Nature: New diocesan college, replacing St Augustine's Seminary. For Dr Conaty, Lord Bishop of Kilmore. FS laid 27 May 1871. £17,000. Contractor: James Smith, Carrick Villa, Stradone. (According to Mulligan the contractor was William Hague[1].)
Refs: Entire set of drawings for college by WH in W.H. Byrne & Son collection; IB 11, 15 Aug 1869, 195; inscription on trowel presented to Cardinal Cullen at FS laying ceremony (transcript in Jones files); Book of Kilmore Cathedral (RIA, 1947), 74; Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 719-721(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 259.

Name: MCDONNELL, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1907
Nature: Adds. & imps., 1907. Renovation, 1915.
Refs: IB 49, 7 Sep 1907, 629; 57, 16 Jan 1915, 34

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1928;1939
Nature: Repairs, 1928.  Addition of W wing, 1939.
Refs: IB 70, 1928, 464; Drawings, 1939, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 259.

Name: GAFFNEY, PATRICK
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1941
Nature: Farm buildings.
Refs: IB 83, 24 May 1941, 264