Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CARLOW, RATHVILLY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CARLOW, RATHVILLY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1751
Nature: 'The church, built in 1751, though small, is a pretty structure with a handsome spire lately added;  it has been lately repaired by a grant of £315 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.' (Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 509;  exterior illus. in  Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 291.

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. CARLOW, RATHVILLY, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1847-48
Nature: Addition of transepts and chancel.
Refs: Drawings dated 1847 at in collection of Lord Rathdonnell, Lisnevagh, Co. Carlow, 1999 (see Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 97, n.29) and dated Mar 1848 in RCB Library, portfolio 21