Selected: CO. SLIGO, BALLYMOTE, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (FORMERLY ST BRIGID) (RC)
| Name: | GOLDIE, GEORGE # |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, BALLYMOTE, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (FORMERLY ST BRIGID) (RC) |
| Date: | 1859-1864 |
| Nature: | New church, for Canon Denis Tighe, FS laid 12 Oct 1859. Work delayed by masons' strike. Building in progress, 1861. Opened 4 Sep 1864. Contractor: Charles Barker. (Old church became the Loftus Hall.). Design exh. at Architectural Exhibition, London, Apr 1861. |
| Refs: |
DB 1, 1 Dec 1859, 164; 3, 15 Jul 1861, 577 (is this the church at 'Ballymont', Co. Mayo, the design for which was exhib. in London in 1860 - see DB 1, 1 May 1860, 258?); Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 24 (May 1861), 125; Freeman's Journal, 5 Sep 1864; http://homepage.tinet.ie/~jhiggins/history.html (2008); illus. in Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 52(illus.). |
| Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, BALLYMOTE, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (FORMERLY ST BRIGID) (RC) |
| Date: | 1910 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for building new side chapel and other extensive works. |
| Refs: | B 98, 10 Jan 1910, 45. |
| Name: | BYRNE, RALPH HENRY |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, BALLYMOTE, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (FORMERLY ST BRIGID) (RC) |
| Date: | 1922 |
| Nature: | New aisle, beyond tower. |
| Refs: | Designs, dated 1922, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142 |