Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)

Name: CLARKE, JOSHUA *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)
Date: 1919
Nature: Window in N transept (from previous cathedral?), 'signed by James [sic] Clarke of Frederick Street, Dublin''.

Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 249.

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)
Date: 1938-1943
Nature: New cathedral on Roman basilica plan with Corinthian portico. Plans approved, Feb 1938. Cornerstone laid 10 Sep 1939. Consecrated and dedicated 1945. Contractor: John Sisk & Son, Cork.  Columns of Pavonazetto marble supplied by Dinelli Figli, Pietrasanta, and Installed by Earley & Co.
Refs: Designs, dated 1938-43, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142 IB 80, ?,?,12 Nov 1938, 197,666,801,936(illus.); 83, 1941, 171; 84, 1942, 330(illus.),360(illus.); Capuchin Annual (1941), 258; Book of Kilmore Cathedral (1947);  Madeleine Lyons, ed., Building a Business: 150 Years of the Sisk Group, (Dublin:  Associated Editions, 2009), 22(illus.),62-63(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 245-249, Pl. 110.

Name: MELDRUM, ALEXANDER ROBERT #
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)
Date: 1938p
Nature: Assisted R.H. Byrne with same.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 246.

Name: EARLEY & CO. *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)
Date: 1939p
Nature: Installed grey marble columns provided by Dinelli Figli, Pietrasanta. Stained glass windows (Heads of 12 Apostles) in apse.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 248,249.

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)
Date: 1942a
Nature: Terrazzo floors.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 249.

Name: COLLIE, GEORGE *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)
Date: ?
Nature: Mural of Resurrection above high altar and Stations of the Cross by GC.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 249.

Name: SMYTH, GEORGE [2] *
Building: CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, FARNHAM STREET, CATHEDRAL OF SS PATRICK & FELIM (RC, DIOCESE OF KILMORE)
Date: ?
Nature: Statues of Christ, SS Patrick & Felim.
Refs: The Book of Kilmore Cathedral (1947) (B. of I.)