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. |