Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1829-1846
Nature: Attr.to TD, who was supervising work in 1846.
Refs: Drogheda Argo & Leinster Journal, 3 Jan 1846, cited by Gerard M. Rogers, 'The Work of Thomas Duff (1792-1848)', dissertation submitted to Queen's University, Belfast, School of Architecture, 1986, 39; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 118; Paul Larmour, 'That eminent and tasteful architect', Perspective7, No. 1 (Sep/Oct 1998), 59

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1864-1866
Nature: Extension in 15th c. Gothic idiom (new chancel and side chapels) intended as memorial to Canon Levins, PP (d.1863). Glass &c. by Earley & Powells, Dublin. Pulpit by Joseph Digges, Lincoln Pl, Dublin. Church rededicated 3 Jun 1866.
Refs: B 21, 20 Jun 1863, 449; Dundalk Democrat, 11 Jun 1864 (tender for cut stone); DB 8, 15 Jun 1866, 160-1; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 63; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 118.

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1866
Nature: Glass in chancel and side chapels.
Refs: DB 8, 15 Jun 1866, 160-1

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1888
Nature: Tenders invited for organ gallery & other works
Refs: Dundalk Democrat, 17 Mar 1888

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1914
Nature: Improvements.
Refs: IB 56, 1914, 327

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed octagonal pulpit with brass stairs; proposed communion railing.
Refs: Undated tracing of communion railing in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.5/1 (undated drawing of pulpit in Ashlin & Coleman collection? seen by R O'Donnell, ca. 1976, but not in IAA list).