Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, CAHIR, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CAHIR, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date: 1816-18
Nature: Cruciform Gothic Revival church;  'the architect's best Gothic Revival church' (Scott Richardson).
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 239; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 200-201 (ills.99-102); Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 216-7(illus.); David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 18-21

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CAHIR, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date: 1861
Nature: 'massive, sarcophagus shaped monument' in memory of late Earl of Glengall, his mother and his younger daughter placed in churchyard.
Refs: Terence O'Rorke, History of Sligo (1889),II, 345.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CAHIR, CHURCH OF ST PAUL (CI)
Date: 1863
Nature: Works at same. Builder: Arthur Crosbie, Tralee. Estimated cost: £1,200.
Refs: IAA, PKS, B02/18, A03 (Sep 1863, p.59v)