Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)

Name: O'NEILL, JOHN
Building: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1877;1883-4
Nature: New church, replacing that of 1819. Not built until 1883-4 under supervision of C.J. McCarthy (and Mortimer H. Thompson?). FS laid 10 Jun 1883. Dedicated 12 Oct 1884. Builder: John McNally.
Refs: IB 19, 1 Jul 1877, 189(illus.); J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 194-196,fig. 24

Name: MCCARTHY, CHARLES JAMES
Building: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1883-4
Nature: Supervisor of erection of church, 1883, after death of John O'Neill. (Task later taken over by Mortimer H. Thompson?)
Refs: Inscription on scroll under foundation stone cited by J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 194-196; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 266

Name: O'NEILL, WILLIAM PATRICK
Building: CO. DERRY, DUNGIVEN, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1894a
Nature: Altar, for Rev. E. Loughrey. Subject of lawsuit, 1894.
Refs: Irish Times, 21 Jun 1894; Building News 68, 24 May 1895, 749