Selected: CO. MAYO, BALLAGHADERREEN, CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION & ST NATHY (RC, ACHONRY DIOCESE)
| Name: | BUTLER, JOHN STERLING |
| Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLAGHADERREEN, CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION & ST NATHY (RC, ACHONRY DIOCESE) |
| Date: | 1854 |
| Nature: | Unexecuted designs for same? |
| Refs: | B 12, 15 Apr,7 Oct 1854, 197,526 |
| Name: | HADFIELD & GOLDIE # |
| Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLAGHADERREEN, CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION & ST NATHY (RC, ACHONRY DIOCESE) |
| Date: | 1858-1860 |
| Nature: | New cathedral in Early English style. 'Ir was commenced some three or four years ago, and after laying the basement course, the works were suspended under the direction of the above named firm [Weightman, Hadfield & Goldie]. The plan consists of a spacious nave and aisles, chancel, side chapels, western tower and sacristy. The proportions of these various portions were already determined before Messrs. Weightman and Co. commenced operations, and they have been in consequence very much crippled in carrying out their design.' (Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal). Consecrated 3 Nov 1860. Contractor: Mssrs. Doolin, Westland Row, Dublin. Clerk of Works: Charles Barker. Local blue limestone from quarries on estate of Lord Dillon, who also presented site. Cost: £5,000. High altar by Henry Lane, Dublin. |
| Refs: | Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 19 (Oct 1856), 325 (illus., Pl. XXIX); B 16, 27 Mar 1858, 214; DB 2, 1 Sep,1 Dec 1860, 327,380; Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 41-43(illus.). |
| Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY |
| Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLAGHADERREEN, CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION & ST NATHY (RC, ACHONRY DIOCESE) |
| Date: | 1899-1904 |
| Nature: | Tower & spire (Tenders invited, Aug 1900; built 1908?) |
| Refs: | Designs, 1899-1900, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142; IB 42, 15 Aug 1900, 451;458; 43, 13 Feb,10 Apr 1901, 624,687; 46, 21 May 1904, 318; illus. in Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 42(illus.). |
| Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
| Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLAGHADERREEN, CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION & ST NATHY (RC, ACHONRY DIOCESE) |
| Date: | 1908-1912 |
| Nature: | New sacristies and imps. to interior (roof, porch under gallery &c). Tenders invited, May 1908. |
| Refs: | Drawings, 1909-12, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142; IB 50, 18 Apr,16 May 1908, 245,309; 54, 25 May 1912, 320; B 102, 24 May 1912, 615; Freeman's Journal, 19 May 1908; Building News 102, 31 May 1912, 795 |
| Name: | OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *# |
| Building: | CO. MAYO, BALLAGHADERREEN, CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION & ST NATHY (RC, ACHONRY DIOCESE) |
| Date: | 1915a? |
| Nature: | Mosaic work (sanctuary pavement?) (Later painted over and retiled.) |
| Refs: |
Oppenheimer brochure, 1915ca (information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013). |