Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY

Name: BYRNE, PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1839
Nature: In charge of execution of A.W.N. Pugin's design for chapel.
Refs: Phoebe Stanton, Pugin (1971), 57;  Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009),88(illus.),89-91.

Name: PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1839
Nature: Chapel. Drawings completed 28 May 1839. Building simplified in execution.
Refs: Phoebe Stanton, Pugin (1971), 57,58(illus.),199; R. O'Donnell, 'The Pugins in Ireland' in P.Atterbury, ed., A.W.N. Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival (Yale, 1995), 143.

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1839
Nature: JBK associated with Patrick Byrne and A.W.N. Pugin on designs for chapel and lantern.
Refs: Note by 'KG[or KS] 5/9/83' in Jones file

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1843
Nature: Marble altar frontal (Pieta), for Mother Theresa Ball.
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 84(illus.),169

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1848
Nature: Angels on either side of altar (believed to be based on Hogans two eldest daughters).
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 93(illus.),171

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1864
Nature: 'jobbing works'. Builder: Beardwood & Son.
Refs: IAA, PKS B02/44

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1872
Nature: Works. Contractor: Gahan & Son.
Refs: IAA, PKS B05/50

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1901
Nature: Gymnasium
Refs: Designs, 1901, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1902
Nature: New wing or wings
Refs: IB 44, 30 Jan 1902, 1020,1024

Name: CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: 1923;1925;1929-
Nature: Gothic add. 1923; proposed Gothic add., 1925; Gothic add. to Gymnasium Block, 1930; corridor to concert hall, 1934.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, T.J. Cullen Collection, 85/74; IB 72, 18 Jan 1930, 69; photocopies of drawing of elevation and photographs of exterior in IAA, Jones File C167(ii)

Name: PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE ROAD, LORETO ABBEY
Date: ?
Nature: Former Palliser House, on Craig's 'list of candidates for buildings in some way connected to Pearce'
Refs: Maurice Craig, 'The quest for Sir Edward Lovett Pearce', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 12 (1996), 33