Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY
Date: 1824-27
Nature: New girls' school, chapel and refuge, for Catherine MacAuley, foundress in 1831 of Sisters of Mercy.
Foundation stone laid July 1824. Contractors included Denis Lenehan (mason and bricklayer) and John Curran (carpenter).

Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 564; Roland Burke Savage, Catherine McAuley. The First Sister of Mercy (1950), 49-50.

Name: CASEY, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY
Date: 1848ca
Nature: 4 stained-glass windows in chapel
Refs: Catholic Directory (1848), 563.

Name: BOURKE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY
Date: 1858
Nature: Additions, including chapel. Tiled floor in chapel by Maw & Co. of Stoke-on-Trent.
Refs: B 16, 11 Sep 1858, 617;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 564.

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY
Date: 1909
Nature: Mortuary chapel
Refs: Drawings, 1909, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne, not transferred to IAA.

Name: SHARP, EDMUND *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY
Date: 1910ca
Nature: Sculpture in mortuary chapel. (Architect: W.H. Byrne.)
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 564.

Name: EARLEY & CO. *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY
Date: 1931
Nature: Stained glass window on altar wall (Immaculate Conception).
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 564.

Name: BOLGER, BRYAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BAGGOT STREET LOWER, CONVENT OF SISTERS OF MERCY
Date: ?
Nature: BB architect
Refs: Reportorium Novum 1963-4, 353