Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, KILLINKERE, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILLINKERE, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1817ca
Nature: New church. 'The church, for the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits granted £900 as a gift, and £1200 as a loan, in 1817, is a very neat structure.'(Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 140;  exterior illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 246.

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILLINKERE, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1866
Nature: Addition of transept, fireplace in robing room, pulpit, reading desk, new sittings. Contractor: James Scanlon.
Refs: Signed drawing(s), also signed by contractor, 26 Mar 1866, in RCB Library, portfolio 20;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 381.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, KILLINKERE, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1878
Nature: Restoration and renovation. Church reopened, 15 Nov 1878.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 237, 1 Dec 1878, 357.