Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. FERMANAGH, ROSLEA, CHURCH OF ST TIERNEY (RC)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, ROSLEA, CHURCH OF ST TIERNEY (RC)
Date: 1836-1839ca
Nature: New Gothic church, 92 x 46 ft. Tower, 78 ft. Gallery. Altar elegantly executed in wood. Painting of Crucifixion a gift from Arthur McKenna, Thomas t, Dublin. Cost £2000. 'Protestant labour..and money…greatly contributed'.
Refs: Catholic Directory (1838), 260; (1840), 238 (cf. Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 479, which dates body of church to c.1800 and addition of tower and porch to 1834.)

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, ROSLEA, CHURCH OF ST TIERNEY (RC)
Date: 1926;1928-29
Nature: Proposals for cross at battlement level of existing tower, 1926; for Gothic high altar, 1928; for Classical high altar and 2 side altars, 1929. (Classical high altar executed?)
Refs: Designs, dated 1928-29, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 66, ? ? 1924, 982; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979),479