Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, BALLINGARRY, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. LIMERICK, BALLINGARRY, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC)
Date: 1872-1879
Nature: Contract for building same awarded to Michael Walsh, Foynes. 1872.  FS laid 1874. Consecrated 7 Sep 1879. 
Refs: RHA 1876, no. 264; B 37, 27 Sep 1879, 1090; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 27(illus.),66;  National Inventoryof Architectural Heritage
 https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/21827002/our-lady-of-the-immaculate-conception-rylanes-ballingarry-limerick (illus.);  Dolores Mullins, 'A Legacy in Stone: the architectural heritage of Michael Walsh, a Foynes bulding contractor', Old Limerick Journal 54 (Winter, 2019), 7 (illus.).  

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. LIMERICK, BALLINGARRY, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RC)
Date: 1893
Nature: Proposed 'throne' to High Altar? (High altar executed by Edmund Sharp)
Refs: Drawing, 1893, in Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection? (seen by R. O'Donnell, ca. 1976, but not in IAA list); Edmund Sharp's publicity booklet (1920s), 62