Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, FURBO, CHURCH (RC)

Name: TIGHE, MICHAEL JOHN
Building: CO. GALWAY, FURBO, CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1933
Nature: New Romanesque church begun May 1832. FS laid 9 Jul 1933 (but date on stone given as 29 Jun 1933).  Opened and dedicated 4 Oct 1834.  Builder: Thomas Kennedy & Sons, North Mayo. Contract price: £2290.
Refs: IB 75, 3 Jun 1933, 477;  information from Michael Ball Tighe, Feb 2009;  Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 80-81 (illus.).