Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMURN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION & ST MALACHY (RC)

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMURN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION & ST MALACHY (RC)
Date: 1841
Nature: Daniel Robertson believed to have collborated with John Hogan in designing the altarpiece in commemoration of Margaret Maher, sister of John Maher, MP, of Ballinkeele.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 96.

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMURN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION & ST MALACHY (RC)
Date: 1841
Nature: High relief marble Pieta for high altar in memory of Margaret Maher (1808-38), for her brother John Maher, MP. JH believed to have collborated with Daniel Robertson in designing altarpiece.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 96.

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMURN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION & ST MALACHY (RC)
Date: 1841
Nature: DR believed to have collborated with John Hogan in designing the altarpiece in commemoration of sister of John Maher, MP, of Ballinkeele.
Refs: 2 unsigned, undated rough sketch designs among Ballinkeele drawings on deposit in IAA, Acc.98/105.74,75; another (shwoing alternative arrangement) in collection of Mary Sherwood, Enniscorthy (repr. in J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 376); Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 96

Name: PUGIN & ASHLIN
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMURN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION & ST MALACHY (RC)
Date: 1861
Nature: Mortuary chapel just to the north of the Church, in granite, Portland and Caen stone; commissioned by the family of John Meagher, late MP for Co. Wexford, who died in May 1860. 12 x 9 ft. Builders: Hardman & Co. (See also J. Ryan.)
Refs: DB 3, 15 Apr 1861, 486; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'A Victorian Partnership - the architecture of Pugin & Ashlin', in J. Graby, ed.,150 Years of Architecture in Ireland: the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland 1839-1989, (RIAI, 1989), 58;  Churches of the Diocese of Ferns (Booklink, 2004), 64(illus.) See also, G. J. Hyland, The Life and Works of Edward Welby Pugin Architect, 1834-75 (2021), 116.

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMURN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION & ST MALACHY (RC)
Date: 1911
Nature: Stained-glass window of the Assumption.
Refs: Churches of the Diocese of Ferns (Booklink, 2004), 64.

Name: RYAN, J.
Building: CO. WEXFORD, BALLYMURN, CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION & ST MALACHY (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed mortuary chapel to late Thomas Meagher.
Refs: Signed undated drawing on deposit in IAA, Acc. 98/105.76 (see Ballinkeele list)