Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1792
Nature: Life size wooden crucifix, signed and dated 1792.
Refs: Dublin Evening Post, 9 Aug 1792; H.G. Leask, 'Some less known works of Edward Smyth, sculptor', JRSAI 80 (1950), 74-75(illus.); Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 72

Name: BOLGER, JAMES [2]
Building: CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 18396-1846
Nature: Architect 'Mr Bulger'; foreman Pat Madden. For Rev. Eugene O'Reilly, PP (Shell Guide gives design of church to O'Reilly)
Refs: Rev. J. Brady, A Short history of the parishes of Mullingar and Navan, (Navan,1938) Pt. 3, 99; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 428-9)

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1852p
Nature: Memorial bust of Rev. Eugene O'Reilly (d. 1852) by T. Farrell.
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 429

Name: BOURKE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1858;1861
Nature: Alts & adds; extensive improvements (division into nave and side aisles, apse, side chapels, 2 towers at W. end, new front)
Refs: B 16, 9 Oct 1858, 682; DB 3, 1 Jun 1861, 531; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 429

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1920;1921
Nature: Alterations and repairs.  Tender s invited for wiring and lighting, Dec 1921.
Refs: IB 62, ? ? 1920, 753;  Irish Times, 15,17 Dec 1921.

Name: KING, RICHARD JOSEPH *
Building: CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Oil painting(?) of the 4 Evangelists.
Refs: Capuchin Annual (1975), 206; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244 (also Madonna & Child in Catholic Young Men's Society?)