Name: |
UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: |
CO. LAOIS, MOUNTRATH, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI, CLONENAGH PARISH) |
Date: |
1801a |
Nature: |
New church on site donated by Earl of Mountrath, 1796ca. Consecrated 20 May 1801. Cost £969 (cf. Lewis who wasy that church was erected by aid of gift of £900 and loan of £500). Enlarged, 1832, by aid of loan of £1500 from Board of First Fruits.
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Refs: |
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 359; Clergy of Cashel and Emly; Clergy of Leighlin (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012), 225; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 342.
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