Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Builder, of Monaghan, who built a Late Georgian house in North Road, Monaghan, which was subsequently enlarged and converted into the Provincial Bank.  Clarke was also the builder of St Patrick's Roman Catholic church, Monaghan, and St Patrick's Church of Ireland church, Tullycorbet, Co. Monaghan.(1)   He may be connected with the building firm Clarke & Co., who built the new market house in Ballybay, Co. Monaghan, to designs by William Walker in 1848.(2)



References



(1)   Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 466,478,556.
(2) Mulligan, op. cit., 155.


3 work entries listed in chronological order for CLARKE, JOHN *


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Building: CO. MONAGHAN, MONAGHAN, CHURCH SQUARE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date:
Nature: JC builder of new church to designs by William  Farrell.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 466.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, TULLYCORBET, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1831
Nature: 'The church is a small and plain but neat edifice, situated on an eminence and erected at an exspense of £850 , by a loan from the late Board of First Fruits in 1831.' (Lewis) Mulligan suggests William Farrell as architect and names builder as John Clarke.(Church closed in 1974.)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 658;  Clergy of Clogher  (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 93(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 556.   

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, NORTH ROAD, HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: 5-bay, 2-storey house in squared limestone with red brick trim.  Later enlarged an converted into Provincial Bank.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 478.