Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, TULLYCORBET, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)

Name: CLARKE, JOHN *
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, TULLYCORBET, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI)
Date: 1831
Nature: 'The church is a small and plain but neat edifice, situated on an eminence and erected at an exspense of £850 , by a loan from the late Board of First Fruits in 1831.' (Lewis) Mulligan suggests William Farrell as architect and names builder as John Clarke.(Church closed in 1974.)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 658;  Clergy of Clogher  (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 93(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 556.