Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, GREENCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST FINIAN (CI, MOVILLE LOWER PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GREENCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST FINIAN (CI, MOVILLE LOWER PARISH)
Date: 1782
Nature: New church with 1-bay nave and tower. For Augustus Hervey, Earl Bishop of Derry. Chancel and robing room, new seating, pulpit &c.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 316; F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999),  167 (illus.).

Name: HARDY, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GREENCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST FINIAN (CI, MOVILLE LOWER PARISH)
Date: 1860s?
Nature: Survey by AH in connection with addition of new chancel and robing room, new seating, pulpit &c. (Was AH also the architect for these?)
Refs: Unsigned, undated designs and undated survey by AH in RCB Library, portfolio 10A

Name: RANKIN, GEORGE *
Building: CO. DONEGAL, GREENCASTLE, CHURCH OF ST FINIAN (CI, MOVILLE LOWER PARISH)
Date: 1882
Nature: New font 'designed and executed by Mr G. Rankin, Belfast'. Presented by Mrs McLellan, Manor House, Greencastle.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 130, 24 Jun 1882, 444.