Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE, CHURCH (CI, MOYRUS PARISH)

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE, CHURCH (CI, MOYRUS PARISH)
Date: 1842
Nature: Plaque on W gable says: 'AD 1842/ Welland Arch/ H. Carroll Builder'. Another plaque on inside face of porch gable says that church was consecrated 14 Sep 1843. (Porch, tower & spire added later.)
Refs: Information from Roger Hill.

Name: CARROLL, THOMAS HENRY *
Building: CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE, CHURCH (CI, MOYRUS PARISH)
Date: 1842
Nature: Plaque on W gable says: 'AD 1842/ Welland Arch/ H.[sic] Carroll Builder'.Is this Thomas Henry Carroll?
Refs: Information from Roger Hill.

Name: FLOWER, LAMOROCK #
Building: CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE, CHURCH (CI, MOYRUS PARISH)
Date: 1855
Nature: LF described as 'honorary architect' of new church in 12th century Gothic style near ruins of 11th century church. Granite dressed with local limestone and red bricks. Consecrated 31 Jul 1855. Contractor: T.H. Carroll, Dublin. Funds raised by Miss Moore of Lisburn (Was this Moyrus Beauchamp as opposed to Moyrus Roundstone or its chapel-of-ease at Ballinahinch?) R. Hill says there are a lot of small mission churches in the area, and that there are ruins of what could be a 19th c. church in Moyrus townland.) Parsonage and schools also erected.
Refs: B 13, 18 Aug 1855, 395; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 268

Name: MARTIN, WILLIAM EDWARD
Building: CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE, CHURCH (CI, MOYRUS PARISH)
Date: 1865
Nature: Design for new? church (3-bay rectangle with S entrance porch and bellcote on S slpe of W gable)
Refs: Drawing signed by WEM and countersigned by Welland & Gillespie, date of contract Mar 1865, also letter from Martin to Welland & Gillespie, in RCB Library, portfolio 26; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 539

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE, CHURCH (CI, MOYRUS PARISH)
Date: 1891-94
Nature: Addition of tower and porch. FS laid 4 Jun 1891; church reopened 30 Aug 1894.
Refs: Inscription on plaque on inside face of porch gable (information from Roger Hill)