Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, COOLCULLEN, CHURCH (CI, MOTHEL PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, COOLCULLEN, CHURCH (CI, MOTHEL PARISH)
Date: 1792-94ca
Nature: New church built - but not properly finished - by aid of gift of £500 from Board of First Fruits; enlarged 1814; reroofed 1828 (but cf. Lewis: 'the church is a neat edifice, with a tower, built by aid of a loan of £600 from the…Board [of First Fruits], in 1817; for its repair the Ecclesiastical commissioners have recently granted £115.')
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 394;  J.B. Leslie, Ossory Clergy and Parishes (1933), 323;  Clergy of Ossory (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2013), 46(illus.) ; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK&regno=12401108 (last visited, Nov 2016;  for additional images see http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=images&county=KK&regno=12401108.