Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, CAHIRCIVEEN, CHURCH OF ST FINNIAN (CI, CAHIR PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KERRY, CAHIRCIVEEN, CHURCH OF ST FINNIAN (CI, CAHIR PARISH)
Date: 1815
Nature: 'The church is a neat plain edifice, built in the year 1815 by aid of a loan of £540 from the late Board of First Fruits.' (Later rebuilt, see photograph in J.B Leslie, ed. D.W.T. Crooks. Clergy of Limerick - Clergy of Ardfert and Agahadoe: biographical succession lists (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2015), 139.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 237

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. KERRY, CAHIRCIVEEN, CHURCH OF ST FINNIAN (CI, CAHIR PARISH)
Date: 1864
Nature: New church with tower and spire at NW angle and polygonal robing room at  SE angle.. Contractor: James Hunter. (Church closed circa 1972)
Refs: Signed contract drawings, dated 30 Jun 1864, in RCB Library, also note by incumbent re positioning of new church, May 1863, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org (last visited, Feb 2016);  exterior illus. in J.B Leslie, ed. D.W.T. Crooks. Clergy of Limerick - Clergy of Ardfert and Agahadoe: biographical succession lists (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2015), 139.