Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, COLLOONEY, GLEBE HOUSE (BALLYSADARE PARISH)

Name: LYNN, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. SLIGO, COLLOONEY, GLEBE HOUSE (BALLYSADARE PARISH)
Date: 1819-20
Nature: Proposed 2-storey, 3-bay glebe house for Thomas Kingsbury, Archdeacon of Killala. (According to Lewis, 'glebe-house was built by aid of a gift of £400 and a loan of £400, in 1819, from the late Board of First Fruits'.)
Refs: Signed, undated plan and elevation, inscribed on verso:'Plan of Glebe House & Offices for the Parish of Ballisodare in the Diocese of Achonry approved of by the Lord Bishop of Killalla[sic], 29th April 1820', in Representative Church Body Library, GH/11 (see also GH/12, below);  letter from John Lynn to Bishop of Killala, Sligo, 27 Feb 1819, suggesting alterations to design and possiible site for house, Rpresentative church Body Library, GH/22;  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 184.

Name: LYNN, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. SLIGO, COLLOONEY, GLEBE HOUSE (BALLYSADARE PARISH)
Date: 1820
Nature: Alternative proposed design for new 2-storey, 3-bay glebe house and out offices for Thomas Kingsbury, Archdeacon of Killala..
Refs: Signed plans and elevations (inscribed, 'I approve of this Plan for a Glebe House & offices for the Parish of Ballisodare[sic] 29 April 1820 J.Killala') in Representative Church Body Library, Rathgar, Dublin (information from Siobhan Sexton, Architectural Conservation Officer, Mayo County Council, Feb 2015).


Name: CALDWELL, JAMES [1]
Building: CO. SLIGO, COLLOONEY, GLEBE HOUSE (BALLYSADARE PARISH)
Date: 1832
Nature: Proposed additions in form of 2 single-storey wings, signed 'drawn by James Caldwell 15 June 1832' and inscr.'Approved by Jas Killala & Aconry 16 July 1832'.
Refs: Signed plan, dated 15 Jun 1832, in Representative Church Body Library, GH/13.