Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CLARE, KILRUSH, CONVENT OF MERCY & SCHOOLS

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. CLARE, KILRUSH, CONVENT OF MERCY & SCHOOLS
Date: 1860-64
Nature: Built on site presented by Col. Vandeleur. Early English, in form of quadrangle, with convent on W side, schools & chapel on E side, House of Mercy & offices on N & W sides. Not started until 1862.
Refs: RHA 1862, no. 445; 1869, no. 225; DB 2, 1 Apr 1860, 239; 4, 15 Feb,15 Jul 1862, 45,175; B 12, 15 Jul 1854, 378; 18, 28 Apr 1860, 267; (?also DB 7, 1 Jul 1865, 161); Exhibition of Manufactures, Machinery and Fine Arts, Dublin, 1864, no. 328; Dublin International Exhibition of Art and Manufactures, 1865, no. 169; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 46