Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)

Name: KILGALLIN, PATRICK J.
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1897-1903
Nature: New church, with Walter Doolin.
Refs: Information from John McTernon, Sligo;  Discover Ireland, http://www.discoverireland.com/us/ireland-things-to-see-and-do/listings/product/?fid=FI_16444 (last visited Apr 2009) (reference from Andrew Regan)

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1897-1903
Nature: New church, with Patrick J. Kilgallin..
Refs: Discover Ireland, http://www.discoverireland.com/us/ireland-things-to-see-and-do/listings/product/?fid=FI_16444 (last visited Apr 2009) (reference from Andrew Regan)

Name: SHARP, EDMUND *
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1903
Nature: High altar, gift of Senor Margarita M. de Morgan, Buenos Ayres, Lady Altar, Pulpit & font designed by ES and 'executed by Irishmen'. For Monsignor Richard McLaughlin, PP.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 25 May 1903 (quoted in E. Sharp's publicity brochure of 1920s, 76)

Name: SALVIATI, ANTONIO #
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1903a
Nature: Mosaics on entrance front and some in interior by Compagnia di Venezia e Murano (but see Oppenheimer, below).
Refs: The Salviati Architecturaal Mosaic Database, http://salviatimosaics.blogspot.ie/2013/04/sacred-heart-catholic-church-roscommon.html (last visited, May 2017)

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1915a?
Nature: Mosaics in aisles, pavements in sanctuary, chapels of Our Lady and St Joseph, sacristy pavements.
Refs: Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca, and centenary publication (1965) (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013).

Name: O'CALLAGHAN & WEBB
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1916
Nature: Addition of tower and spire to church built 1897-1903. Contractor: John Maguire, Cork.
Refs: Building News 107, 4 Sep,11 Dec 1914, 327,761; IB 56, 5 Dec 1914, 657; 57, 31 Jul,29 Aug 1915, 353,509; 58; 58, 10 Jun 1916, 260

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1938
Nature: Proposed Lourdes grotto. Erected on the north side of the church.
Refs: Designs, dated 1938, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, ABBEY STREET, CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Baldacchino in cemetery, 20th cent. By RHB?
Refs: Undated designs, dated 1935, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142