Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)

Name: PIERCE, RICHARD [1]
Building: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1851
Nature: New church (replacing one consecrated 3 Sep 1837? - see Catholic Directory (1838), 432). FS laid Sep 1851. Left unfinished until after RP's death, then completed by W.G. Murray.
Refs: B 9, 20 Sep 1851, 600; DB 1, 1 Jun 1859, 75; Barry O'Leary, 'Richard Pierce: Architect and Acolyte of the Gothic Revival' Journal of the Wexford Historical Society No. 20 (2004-2005), 86-87

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1859
Nature: Schemes for addition of chancel.
Refs: Signed and dated drawings in IAA, 92/46, nos. 77-85 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 62-63)

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1912
Nature: Addition of mortuary chapel
Refs: Drawings, 1912, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 54, 25 May,22 Jun,6 Jul 1912, 320,379,410

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1914;1918-1919;1923
Nature: Proposed new aisle, 1914.  Improvements, including oak screen and organ gallery, marble communion rails and steps, lining of chancel with Irish marble, 1918-19.  Enlargement by addition of 2 aisles, 1923 (Contractor: Thomas Coghlan, Castlepollard).  For Monsignor D'Alton.
Refs: IAA Butler Collection, Acc. 85/107, notebook 25;  IB 60, 16 Mar 1918, 133; 61, 8 Mar 1919, 105; 65, 19 May,17 Nov 1923, 380,892; 66, 31 May 1824, 489;  Tuam Herald, 24 Nov 1923.

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1925
Nature: 8 stained-glass windows
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne,Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 67