Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYSHANNON, CONVENT OF MERCY

Name: O'NEILL & BYRNE
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYSHANNON, CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: 1879-1883
Nature: FS laid 15 Sep 1879. Building suspended Feb 1881 until Jul 1882. Occupied 2 Apr 1883. Contractor: Matthew McClelland, Derry. Intended chapel and spire not built.
Refs: Drawings, 1879, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 22, 1 Jan 1880, 7(illus.),11; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 128; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 77,214-6,ill.75

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYSHANNON, CONVENT OF MERCY
Date: 1928
Nature: Chapel.
Refs: Designs, dated 1928, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142;