Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, O'CONNELL STREET, CHURCH (RC, AUGUSTINIAN)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, O'CONNELL STREET, CHURCH (RC, AUGUSTINIAN) |
Date: | 1816? |
Nature: | Theatre (built 1810) purchased in or by 1816? for £400 by Prior, who spent £600 on alts. and imps. to convert it into church. These included wooden entrance portico with four columns, erected 1816. (Is this the church described by James Hall, in his |Tour through Ireland| (1813) as 'one of the most extensive and showy of all the religious buildings in the Kng's dominions'?) |
Refs: | Patrick Fitzgerald & John James McGregor, The history, topography, and antiquities, of the county and city of Limerick (Dublin, 1826-7), II, 569-70; M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 425,439,442,425 |
Name: | JONES & KELLY |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, O'CONNELL STREET, CHURCH (RC, AUGUSTINIAN) |
Date: | 1938-39 |
Nature: | New. Builder: G. S. Walsh & Son, Dublin. Cost: £49,000. |
Refs: | IB 80, 12 Nov 1938, 958; 81, 4 Feb 1939, 95 |
Name: | SHEAHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, O'CONNELL STREET, CHURCH (RC, AUGUSTINIAN) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Renovation. |
Refs: | Who's Who in Architecture (1923), 222 |