Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, OVENS, CHURCH (RC)

Name: RIORDAN, TIMOTHY
Building: CO. CORK, OVENS, CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1831p
Nature: TR architect and contractor for same; 'a handsome edifice of hewn limestone, in the mixed Gothic and Grecian style of architecture'(Lewis). FS laid Jul 1831 by Rev. W. O'Brien, PP.
Refs: Southern Reporter, 19 Jul 1831; Rev. James Coombes, 'Catholic Churches of the Nineteenth Century: some newspaper sources', JCHAS 81 (Part 1, Jan-Jun 1975), 4 (gives date as 1831); S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 89 (gives date as 1835).