Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DUNLEER, CHURCH (CI)

Name: REILLY, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNLEER, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1814-1817
Nature: Payments amounting to £309.6s.8d. made to JR between 1814 and 1817 for re-roofing, re-slating and repairs; further payments of £6.7s.5½d. and £14.2s.9d for same contract made to his representatives in 1819 and 1820 respectively.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: NICHOLLS, AUSTIN
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNLEER, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1818-19
Nature: AN paid £29.1s.3½ in 1818 and £32.7s.11½ in 1819 ''on account of his contract for repairing and dashing the tower of Dunleer Church'.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: BELL, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNLEER, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1820ca
Nature: JB paid £72.5s. for erecting a gallery, 'rendered necessary by the great increase in the congregation', and a balance of £9.15s. the following year.
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Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNLEER, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1830
Nature: Addition 'according to plans by Mr Farrell, architect to Board of First Fruits'. £300 granted by Board of First Fruits for same 1830.
Refs: Drogheda Journal, 29 May 1830; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 584; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 276.

Name: FULLERTON, JOHN HENRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNLEER, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: Ancient church at present being ‘thoroughly restored’. N transept separated from church for use as parish hall. Church repewed, new Gothic windows installed. New pulpit, lectern and prayer desk. Glastonbury chairs.  ’The old horse boxes are gone, and neat open benches of pitch pine varnished occupy their places, a prayer desk, prayer wise, and neat lectern, and a handsome pulpit…are correctly placed south and north, while the east window of the chancel is filled with stained glass, gift of the Dowager Lady Rathdonnell.’ New organ by Telford. Substantial grant from Marshal Beresford Fund.  Churc reopened, 9 Nov 1881.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no 61, 26 Feb 1881, 150;  no. 99, 19 Nov 1881, 80; 24, no. 156[157], 30 Dec 1882 981.

Name: CLAYTON & BELL *#
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNLEER, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1881
Nature: New stained glass E window. Gift of Lady Rathdonnell.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23,  no. 99, 19 Nov 1881, 807 (but cf. Gloine).