Selected: CO. ARMAGH, GLASDRUMMOND (OR GLASSDRUMMOND), CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC)
Name: | BYRNE, RALPH HENRY |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, GLASDRUMMOND (OR GLASSDRUMMOND), CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC) |
Date: | 1925-32 |
Nature: | New church, for Very Rev. Peter Sheerin, PP. Classical, using tower and portico from Ravensdale Park, Co. Louth. Tenders invited, May 1926. FS laid 1 May 1927. Opened Oct 1932. Brass sanctuary gates by J. & C. McGloughlin, Dublin. Mosaic floors by McGuiness & Co., Dundalk. |
Refs: |
Designs, dated 1926,, 1929-32, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 67, ? ? 1925, 230; 68, ? ? 1926, 364; 69, 14 May 1927, 358; 70, ? ? 1928, 282; 74, 8 Oct 1932, 894; Irish Times, 6 May 1926; information from C.E.B. Brett, citing article by Tony Kieran in Creggan, no. 4, 66; Richard Oram, Ulster's Church Heritage(2001), 47(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 306-308 (illus.). |
Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, GLASDRUMMOND (OR GLASSDRUMMOND), CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC) |
Date: | 1926p |
Nature: | Mosaic (The Lord is my Shepherd) in pediment on W front. |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 307. |
Name: | VANNUCCI & FAVILLA *# |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, GLASDRUMMOND (OR GLASSDRUMMOND), CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC) |
Date: | 1929? |
Nature: | Proposed design for Classical high altar. |
Refs: | Drawing(s) in W.H. Byrne collection (Dublin address here given as 25 Eustace St) |