Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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