Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, COLLOONEY, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, BALLYSADARE PARISH)

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. SLIGO, COLLOONEY, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, BALLYSADARE PARISH)
Date: 1837
Nature: Transepts, groined ceiling & new windows to church of 1720.
Refs: Terence O'Rorke, History of the parishes of Ballysadare & Kilvarnet (Dublin, 1878), 120-122;  Clergy of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2008), 210(illus.), 212.


Name: GIBSON, JOHN [2]*#
Building: CO. SLIGO, COLLOONEY, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI, BALLYSADARE PARISH)
Date: ?
Nature: Monument to Sophia, née L'Estrange (d. 1822), first wife of Edward Joshua Cooper, of Markree Castle, Co. Sligo.  Sculpted in Florence.
Refs: Terence O'Rorke, History of Sligo (1889), II, 345;  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 164