Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, BALLINAGAR, CHURCH (RC, KILLANUMERY PARISH)

Name: GEARTY, GEORGE (REV.)
Building: CO. SLIGO, BALLINAGAR, CHURCH (RC, KILLANUMERY PARISH)
Date: 1859
Nature: New church in hammered limestone for Rev. George Gearty. Said by O'Rorke to have been designed by GG.  Parishioners'were frightened' of his Gothic design and 'built' by GG.attempted to persuade him to build an 'old-fashioned, barn-like church'.
Refs:
Terence O'Rorke, History of Sligo (1889), II, 327;  J. MacNamee, History of the Diocese of Ardagh (1954),550.