Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, KILCURRY, CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC, FAUGHART PARISH)

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, KILCURRY, CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC, FAUGHART PARISH)
Date: 1896
Nature: New Hiberno-Romanesque church of local limestone faced with Newry granite and lined with brick. FS laid by Cardinal Logue, 18 Oct 1896. Builder: James McAdorey, Dundalk
Refs: Drawings dated 1950s - 60s in IAA, W.H. Byrne Collection, 2006/142; IB 38, 1 Nov 1896, 230; B 71, 7 Nov 1896, 387; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 348

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, KILCURRY, CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC, FAUGHART PARISH)
Date: 1896-97
Nature: Designs for new Romaneque church.
Refs: IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142;  Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 348. 

Name: PURSER, SARAH HENRIETTA *
Building: CO. LOUTH, KILCURRY, CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC, FAUGHART PARISH)
Date: 1908;1909
Nature: Windows, 'Scenes from the lives of SS Patrick, Columba and Brigid' (1909), painted by Catherine O'Brien; 'Scenes from the lives of SS Fainchea and Enda' (1908), painted by Barden
Refs: Bowe, Caron & Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass(1988), 66; John O'Grady, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser(1996), 252

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. LOUTH, KILCURRY, CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC, FAUGHART PARISH)
Date: 1915a
Nature: Mosaic work.
Refs: Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013, citing Oppenheimer brocure, 1915ca


Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, KILCURRY, CHURCH OF ST BRIGID (RC, FAUGHART PARISH)
Date: 1932-36
Nature: Designs for completion of tower
Refs: Designs, dated 1932-36, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142