Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, BALLYTORE, CHURCH OF SS MARY & LAURENCE (RC)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. KILDARE, BALLYTORE, CHURCH OF SS MARY & LAURENCE (RC)
Date: 1860-63
Nature: New Romanesque church by JJM & O'Connell. FS laid by Archbishop Cullen, 5 Aug. 1860. First mass said 1 Jan 1863.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Aug,1 Sep 1860, 317,330; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 31(illus.)55,back cover(illus.)