Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, KNOCK, ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT, SCHOOL & INDUSTRIAL TRAINING HOUSE

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. MAYO, KNOCK, ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT, SCHOOL & INDUSTRIAL TRAINING HOUSE
Date: 1881-84
Nature: Proposed new Poor Clare convent and schools for Sister Mary Francis Clare Cusack (ie Margaret Anna Cusack, 'The Nun of Kenmare') . Building abandoned before completion.. Builder: Joseph Clarence, Ballisodare.
Refs: Elevation of entrance front from an architectural journal (engraved by Sprague & Co., London) inscr. 'William Hague, archt' , 3 lettersfrom Hague to Sister Mary Francis Clare Cusack, Jul 1882-Jan 1884, and letter from Joseph Clarence to same in Our Lady's Shrine, Knock, Archive, Cusack-Cavanagh Papers, nos. 139,141 (photocopies in IAA, courtesy of John Kirwan); B 44, 24 Mar 1883, 397;  Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 731.