Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, KILLORGLIN, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (RC)

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLORGLIN, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (RC)
Date: 1886-88
Nature: WGD wins competition for church, convent and presbytery, 1886. FS laid 6 Sep 1888. Opened 3 May 1891.  Builder: Daniel Devlin. Spire not built.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1886, no. 567, and Irish Exhibition in London, 1888, no. 347 (where church is described as 'in progress'); IB 29, 1 Feb,1 Jun 1887, 33(illus.),161(illus.); 30, 1 Jun,15 Sep 1888, 145,231; 32, 1 Sep 1890, 207(illus.),209; Architect 33, 19 Apr 1886, 220; Gearoid Crookes, 'The Career and Architectural Works of Walter G. Doolin (1850-1902)', unpublished M.A. thesis, University College Dublin, 1987, 49-56, Figs.4:11-16;  Terence Houlihan & Billy Browne, eds., Saint James and Father Tom:  A Saint and his Priest (Fr Tom Lawlor Memorial Committee, n.d.). 10-17(illus.), 49-80(illus.).

Name: MCGOLDRICK, HUBERT *
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLORGLIN, CHURCH OF ST JAMES (RC)
Date: 1932
Nature: 2-light window (Mater Dolorosa and St James).
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), 58.