Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, WHITECHURCH, CHURCH (RC) & ROUND TOWER

Name: HORGAN, MATTHEW (REV.)
Building: CO. CORK, WHITECHURCH, CHURCH (RC) & ROUND TOWER
Date: 1822;1834
Nature: New Gothic church in parish of Whitechurch (united with Garrycloyne parish), 1822. Gothic. 100 x 30 ft, with porch and sacristy.  Round tower erected by subscription, 1832.
Refs: Bishop Michael Collins, 'Register of Visitation for 9 June 1828' ( information from Mgr James O'Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Sep 2010); Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 712-3;  Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), IV, 795,796;