Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, VIOLET HILL, ST COLMAN'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE

Name: HEVEY, TIMOTHY
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, VIOLET HILL, ST COLMAN'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1874-1879
Nature: New 3-storey block and tower. Completed Sep 1879. Contractors: McShane and Lavery, Newry.
Refs: IB 21, 1 Sep 1879, 274; B 37, 27 Sep 1879, 1087; E. Campbell & B.J. Mooney, History of St Colman's College, Newry (1944), 30-49; Sean O'Reilly, 'Timothy Hevey (1846-1878): an episode in Irish High Victorian architecture', Ph.D. thesis, submitted to the National University of Ireland, June 1994, 210-11

Name: MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, VIOLET HILL, ST COLMAN'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1920-22
Nature: Adds. (gabled entrance portion, 3 bays beyond it and 4-bay block beyond latter) and other works. Tenders invited Apr 1920.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 7 Apr 1920; IB 62, 10 Apr 1920, 230; E. Campbell & B.J. Mooney, History of St Colman's College, Newry (1944), 45

Name: ROBINSON & KEEFE
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, VIOLET HILL, ST COLMAN'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1937-38
Nature: New Romanesque chapel. by J.J. Robinson with Denis Neary, CE, Newry. Consecrated 26 Oct 1938. Contractor: Felix O'Hare, Newry & Warrenpoint. May also have designed cloister.
Refs: IB 79, 29 May 1937, 500; 80, 26 Nov 1938, 974; E. Campbell & B.J. Mooney, History of St Colman's College, Newry (1944), 49-61

Name: ROBINSON, KEEFE & DEVANE
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, VIOLET HILL, ST COLMAN'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1958
Nature: New extension.
Refs: IB 100, 22 Feb 1958, 139

Name: KING, RICHARD JOSEPH *
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, VIOLET HILL, ST COLMAN'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass.
Refs: Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244