Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, MOUNTRATH, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI, CLONENAGH PARISH)

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.
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.