Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, SEIRKIERAN, CHURCH OF ST KIERAN (CI)

Name: ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
Building: CO. OFFALY, SEIRKIERAN, CHURCH OF ST KIERAN (CI)
Date: 1839
Nature: New church, identical to church at Eglish, Co. Offaly, drawings for which are signed by Joseph Welland.  However O'Brien attributes design to Frederick Darley[2].
Refs: Colm O'Brien,'The churches of Frederick Darley Jnr:  identification and attribution', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 16 (2013), 80-82(illus.),89;  exterior and interior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 342.