Selected: CO. LOUTH, CLONMORE, CHURCH (CI)
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, CLONMORE, CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1794 |
Nature: | 'The church is a small but handsome edifice, built in 1794, at the sole expense of Primate Robinson' (Lewis) Steeple with 'minarets' (Shaw Mason)W. Shaw Mason, |Parochial Survey of Ireland| |
Refs: | William Shaw Mason, A statistical account, or parochial survey of Ireland (1814-19), ?; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 373; 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 1-2; E. McParland, 'Francis Johnston, Architect', BIGS 12 (nos. 3 & 4), Jul-Dec 1969, 73(illus.),74; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 503 |
Name: | BOYD, - |
Building: | CO. LOUTH, CLONMORE, CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1812 |
Nature: | 'Mr Boyde...a respectable architect' paid £4.6s. in 1812 for work on church and steeple. |
Refs: |
RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane). |