Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY

Name: BYRNE, PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1831-1860
Nature: PB architect to cemetery. Designed entrance lodge and gates, temple, chapel, Finglas Road gate, 1845, O'Connell Circle, &c.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Jan 1859; 2, 1 Aug 1860, 317; Patrick Raftery, 'The last of the traditionalists: Patrick Byrne 1783-1864', AAI Green Book, 1965, 11 (illus. p.10); Carmel Connell, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 1832-1900 (Maynooth Studies in Local History, No. 58, Four Courts Press. Dublin, 2004, 41-48; 5;

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1859
Nature: New monumental chapel in Gothic style.
Refs: B 17, 1 Jan 1859, 15

Name: LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1859-1860
Nature: Circular oratory, completed by 1 Apr 1860. Builder: William Crowe. Metal doors and ironwork by William Turner, Dublin.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Jul,1 Oct 1859, 89,133; 2, 1 Apr 1860, 239; B 17, 16 Jul 1859, 475

Name: BUTLER, JOHN STERLING
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1861
Nature: 'Impressive & handsome memorial structure in Gothic style'. Height 34 ft.
Refs: DB 3, 15 Jan 1861, 409

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1872-79
Nature: Entrances, offices, Romanesque mortuary chapel. Contractor: William Murphy, Dame St. Chapel carvingl: James Pearse, Gt Brunswick St. Altar: P. Neal, Gt Brunswick St. Ironwork: Alfred Webb, Belfast. Stained glass: Clayton and Bell, London. Communion rail:J. McLoughlin, Cuffe St. Chapel ded. Aug 1879. £8000ca
Refs: IAA, PKS B05/31, B06/43; IB 18, 15 Dec 1876, 353; 21, 1 Sep 1879, 274; B 37, 27 Sep 1879, 1087; Guide to Glasnevin Cetery (1879), 66; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 67

Name: CLAYTON & BELL *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1878ca
Nature: Stained glass windows in mortuary chapel.
Refs: Guide through Glasnevin (1879), 66; E. MacDowell Cosgrave & Leonard R. Strangways, Visitors’ Guide to Dublin and Neighbourhoods (Dublin & London, [1907]), 52.

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1909
Nature: Design for monument. (?Hickey memorial, q.v.).
Refs: Undated drawing in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.73/1