Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, TIPPERARY, ST MICHAEL STREET, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TIPPERARY, ST MICHAEL STREET, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1855-1861
Nature: New church in Early English style for Rev. James Howley, PP. Contractor: Mssrs. Doolin, Dublin. Also Hurley? Estimated cost: £7,000. Consecrated Nov? 1861. High altar by Mssrs Hardman
Refs: B 13, 18 Aug,10 Nov 1855, 395,542; 14, 25 Oct 1856, 584; 16, 28 Aug 1858, 890; 18, 27 Oct 1860, 687; 19, 30 Nov 1861, 823; DB 1, 1 Nov 1859, 147; 2, 1 May 1860, 252; 3, 15 Nov,1 Dec 1861, 689,698; 4, 15 Feb 1862, 45-6;

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TIPPERARY, ST MICHAEL STREET, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1860
Nature: High altar, 'the largest & most elaborate erected in the United Kingdom since the Reformation'.
Refs: DB 2, 1 May 1860, 252; 3, 15 Nov,1 Dec 1861, 689, 698.

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TIPPERARY, ST MICHAEL STREET, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1914
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting new front porch & mortuary chapel for Very Rev. Canon Ryan, PP.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 26-28 Mar 1914;  IB 56, 11 Apr 1914, 232

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TIPPERARY, ST MICHAEL STREET, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaic work on sanctuary walls (and floor?).
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: SHEAHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, TIPPERARY, ST MICHAEL STREET, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1953
Nature: Tenders invited for building new stone-faced sacristy.
Refs: IB 95, 6 Jun 1953, 591