Selected: CO. OFFALY, BIRR, CHURCH OF ST BRENDAN (RC)
Name: | MULLINS, BERNARD |
Building: | CO. OFFALY, BIRR, CHURCH OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1817-1824 |
Nature: | Designed by BM. Completed 1 Aug 1824. '…a splendid edifice, in the later English style, having two minarets and a steeple, 150 feet high, with a fine bell' (Lewis) |
Refs: | T.J. Cooke, The Picture of Parsonstown (1826), 176 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 456; T. Cooke, Early History of Birr (1875), 104-5. |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. OFFALY, BIRR, CHURCH OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1908-09 |
Nature: | Works at same (alts. to seating and sanctuary side walls). Tenders invited Feb 1909. |
Refs: |
Drawings, 1908, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 50, 7 Mar 1908, 149; Freeman's Journal, 3,5 Mar 1909. |
Name: | CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. OFFALY, BIRR, CHURCH OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1916 |
Nature: | Painting and decorating, for Dean Scanlan |
Refs: | IB 58, 25 Mar 1916, 143 |
Name: | HARRISON, C.W., & SONS * |
Building: | CO. OFFALY, BIRR, CHURCH OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1936a |
Nature: | Decorative stone work by CWH & Sons. Architect: Frank Gibney. |
Refs: | List of works 'in hands, or recently executed' in advertisement in JRIAI (1936), 69. |
Name: | GIBNEY, FRANK |
Building: | CO. OFFALY, BIRR, CHURCH OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | 1937 |
Nature: | Reconditioning. Decorative stonework by C.W. Harrison & Sons, Pearse St. |
Refs: |
IB 79, 9 Jan 1937, 30; advertisement for C.W. Harrison & Sons in JRIAI (1936), 69. |
Name: | KING, RICHARD JOSEPH * |
Building: | CO. OFFALY, BIRR, CHURCH OF ST BRENDAN (RC) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Stained glass window, 'Baptism of Christ'. |
Refs: | Capuchin Annual (1975), 205; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 243 |