Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, DIAMOND, CHURCH OF ST TIGHERNACH (CI)

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, DIAMOND, CHURCH OF ST TIGHERNACH (CI)
Date: 1823
Nature: New church replacing earlier one;  'it was built at an expense of about £3500, of which £1022 was a loan and £900 a gift, in 1822, from the late Board of First Fruits' (Lewis).
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 360;  illus. in  Clergy of Clogher  (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 31;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 272-3;  illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 147;  


Name: HARDY, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, DIAMOND, CHURCH OF ST TIGHERNACH (CI)
Date: 1858
Nature: Proposed new transepts & galleries. Clerk of Works: A. Hardy.
Refs: Drawings of proposed new transepts and galleries and 2 letters from A. Hardy, Derry, 1858, to J. Welland in RCB Library, portfolio 3;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 272. 

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, DIAMOND, CHURCH OF ST TIGHERNACH (CI)
Date: 1858
Nature: Conversion of base of tower into chancel and addition of transepts and vestries. Clerk of Works: Alexander Hardy.
Refs: Drawings of proposed new transepts and galleries and 2 letters from A. Hardy, Derry, 1858, to J. Welland in RCB Library, portfolio 3; B 16, 7 Aug 1858, 539;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 272.


Name: FULLERTON, JOHN HENRY
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, DIAMOND, CHURCH OF ST TIGHERNACH (CI)
Date: 1882a
Nature: Extensive repairs and improvements, including 6 stained glass windows by Earley & Powells (no longer there).  Painting and decorating by J. Stratton, a local trasesman. Church seats and panelling by Irwin Bros. Ballybay, after design of JHF, diocesan architect. Church formally opened, 29 Jan 1882.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 5, 4 Feb 1882, 76.

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, DIAMOND, CHURCH OF ST TIGHERNACH (CI)
Date: 1882a
Nature: 6 stained glass windows (but no longer there? cf.Gloine).
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 5, 4 Feb 1882, 76.

Name: COURTNEY, - (MISS) *
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, DIAMOND, CHURCH OF ST TIGHERNACH (CI)
Date: 1910
Nature: Stained glass E window (Ascension) in memory of John Read Hunter.
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/search/window/artist.87/results (last visited, Jan 2014)