Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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