Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, MOUNT ST JOSEPH ABBEY (RC, CISTERCIAN)

Name: BEARDWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. OFFALY, MOUNT ST JOSEPH ABBEY (RC, CISTERCIAN)
Date: 1880-1884
Nature: New church with nave, chancel, side aisles (tower and spire not buiIt).Within demesne of Mount Heaton House (Prop: Count Moore, MP).  Consecrated 15 Aug 1884. Works carried out 'principally by men employed in the neighbourhood, and under the supervision of lay brothers, many of whom are skilled artisans'. Part of high altar and one of side altars executed by Earley & Powell;  tabernacle, some of side aisles and other works carried iout by William P. O'Neill, Dublin..
Refs: IB 26, 15 Aug 1884, 239;  Weekly Irish Times, 16 Aug 1844;  B 47, 13 Sep 1884, 372

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. OFFALY, MOUNT ST JOSEPH ABBEY (RC, CISTERCIAN)
Date: 1884
Nature: Part of high altar and one of side altars executed by E & P.
Refs: Weekly Irish Times, 16 Aug 1884.

Name: O'NEILL, WILLIAM PATRICK
Building: CO. OFFALY, MOUNT ST JOSEPH ABBEY (RC, CISTERCIAN)
Date: 1884
Nature: Some of side aisles and other works carried iout by WPO'N
Refs: Weekly Irish Times, 16 Aug 1884.

Name: BEARDWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. OFFALY, MOUNT ST JOSEPH ABBEY (RC, CISTERCIAN)
Date: 1902-1905
Nature: New college buildings. £21,000 to be donated by Count Moore, 'being the portion of MissMoore's money that fell to his son Arthur, decd.' Opened 1905.
Refs: Entries from notebook of Dom Camillus Beardwood, Abbot of Mount St Joseph Abbey, 4 & 5 Feb 1902, in Mount St Joseph archives;  information from Laurence Walsh, CCSO, Mount St Joseph.

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. OFFALY, MOUNT ST JOSEPH ABBEY (RC, CISTERCIAN)
Date: 1938;1940
Nature: New bell tower; new church, FS laid May 1940.
Refs: IB 80, 1 Oct 1938, 810; 82, 11 May 1940, 318; Capuchin Annual 12 (1941), 302

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. OFFALY, MOUNT ST JOSEPH ABBEY (RC, CISTERCIAN)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed communion rail for church.
Refs: Undated drawings in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.147/1,2