Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, TEMPLEMARTIN, CHURCH OF ST MARTIN (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, TEMPLEMARTIN, CHURCH OF ST MARTIN (CI)
Date: 1793?
Nature: 'The church is a plain building, with a square tower 50 feet high, erected by aid of a gift of £500, in 1793, from the same Board [i.e.of First Fruits].'(Lewis) (But according to Townsend it was erected in 1802. Costegalde & Walker state that tower dates back to 1718.)
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 605; Horatio Townsend, Statistical Survey of the County of Cork, 1810 (1815), ?;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 369(illus.).