Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, SNEEM, CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION (CI, KILCROHANE PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KERRY, SNEEM, CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION (CI, KILCROHANE PARISH)
Date: 1790ca
Nature: 'The church at Sneem is a plain structure, erected abouit 1790, for which purpose £390 was granted by the late Board of First Fruits, and £100 was granted at the same period towards the erection of the glebe-house.'(Lewis) (Renovated and named after Feast of Transfiguration, 1967.)
Refs: For curious plan of this church, see drawing in Representative Church Body Library, RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/167 (last visited, Feb 2016); Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 75;   J.B Leslie, ed. D.W.T. Crooks. Clergy of Limerick - Clergy of Ardfert and Agahadoe: biographical succession lists (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2015), 151(illus.);  J.A. Murphy, The Church of Ireland in Co. Kerry (2016), 111(illus.),112..

Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. KERRY, SNEEM, CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION (CI, KILCROHANE PARISH)
Date: 1863
Nature: Proposed repewing, new pulpit, reading desk and chancel rail. ((Church renovated and named after Feast of Transfiguration, 1967.)
Refs: Designs, signed and dated 20 Feb 1863, 7 Aug 1863 in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/167-171 (last visited, Feb 2016).