Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, HARMAN'S GARDENS, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES (RC, OLD)

Name: DOWNES, JOSEPH VINCENT
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, HARMAN'S GARDENS, CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES (RC, OLD)
Date: 1939-41
Nature: New church in International Modern style.  Builder: J. & D. McIlvenna, Dublin.
Refs: IB 81, 4 Feb,23 Dec 1939, 106,1027; illus. in IB 83, 2 Aug 1941, 365;  illus.(exterior and interior) in
The Bell 4, no. 1 (April 1942), 35 (copy in IAA, RPC.96.5);  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009) , 42,43(illus.).