Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, KILBRIDE, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART & ST BRIGID (RC)

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. MEATH, KILBRIDE, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART & ST BRIGID (RC)
Date: 1929-1931
Nature: New Gothic church of Dublin granite, replacing dilapidated structure OF 1782, for Rev. Michael Conlan.  Sandyford granite. Tenders invited, May 1929.  Contract awarded to McAdorey, Dundalk, Jun 1929 (£6,378). Foundations started Aug 1929. FS laid 8 Sep 1929 by Dr Mulvaney, Bishop of Meath. dedicated St Patrick's Day, 1931. Consecrated 8 Sep 1931.
Refs: Designs, 1929, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection 76/1.251; undated designs for communion railing and high altar also in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, 76/1.101/1,2 (may be for this church or for Kilbride, Co. Wicklow);  Irish Times, 17,18 May 1929, 14 Sep 1931;  IB 71, 14 Sep 1929, 832; 1931-1981: Chuch of the Sacred Heart and St Brigid, commemorative pamphlet (copy in IAA, RP.D.72.6); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 462