Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1848-1858
Nature: JJM wins competiton 1846, project then abandoned probably due to famine; project reopened 1851 & design revised by A.W.N. Pugin. FS laid 1 or 13Apr 1852. . Consecrated 25 Aug 1858. Early Decorated Gothic. Chancel window by Barff.
Refs: RHA 1851, no. 312; B 10, 8 May,23 Oct 1852, 300,677; 16, 25 Aug,4 Sep 1858, 539,607; DB 1, 1 Oct 1859, 133; Catholic Registry (1853), 320); Patrick K. Egan, St Michael's, Ballinasloe: Centennial Souvenir (1958), 4,6,8,10; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 35-36

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1912
Nature: Extensive repairs
Refs: IB 54, 13,27 Apr 1912, 227,234,241

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1925
Nature: Stained-glass window: St Patrick & St Rose of Lima
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 56

Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE *
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1928a
Nature: High altar in Connemara marble with white marble figure of dead Christ beneath. Also altar furnishings (except tabernacle door)
Refs: Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 399;  illus. in illus. in Dara O' Conaola, Saol agus Saothar: Albert Power (Ceardshiopa Inis Oirr Teo, 19, 1996), 59.


Name: BARFF, FREDERICK SETTLE *
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass window in apse.
Refs: B 16, 4 Sep 1858, 607; photographs in