Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WATERFORD, MOUNT MELLERAY ABBEY (CAPPOQUIN)

Name: MURPHY, NICHOLAS
Building: CO. WATERFORD, MOUNT MELLERAY ABBEY (CAPPOQUIN)
Date: 1832-35ca
Nature: Exiled Cistercians from France arrived Jun 1832 and 'in about three years' built abbey in form of quadrangle with church on one side. Nearly finished in 1835-36.
Refs: Catholic Directory (1836), 134;  Rev. A.J. Luddy, Story of Mount Melleray (1932), ?.

Name: BEARDWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. WATERFORD, MOUNT MELLERAY ABBEY (CAPPOQUIN)
Date: 1902
Nature: Large alts
Refs: IB 44, 3 Jul 1902, 1313

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. WATERFORD, MOUNT MELLERAY ABBEY (CAPPOQUIN)
Date: 1924-27
Nature: Add. including cloister. Builder: J. Hearne. Stone from Mitchelstown Castle, Co. Cork, used in construction.
Refs: IB 66, 22 Mar 1924, 246; 69, 24 Dec 1927, 953; F. O'Dwyer, '"A Noble Pile in the late Tudor Style": Mitchelstown Castle', Irish Arts Review 18 (2002), 34(illus.), 40(illus.),42

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. WATERFORD, MOUNT MELLERAY ABBEY (CAPPOQUIN)
Date: 1933
Nature: New abbey church for Abbot Celsus O'Connell. FS laid by Cardinal McRory 18 Aug 1933. Work begun 1935. Builder: Maguire & Short.
Refs: 6 undated drawings in IAA, Acc. 2009/36; IB 78, 16 Nov 1936, 1016; 83, 6 Dec 1941, 549(illus.); Capuchin Annual 12 (1941), 300; RIAI Year Book 1946, 40(illus.); RIAI Year Book (1949), 9(illus.).

Name: BEARY, MICHAEL
Building: CO. WATERFORD, MOUNT MELLERAY ABBEY (CAPPOQUIN)
Date: ?
Nature: MB designed buildings there which were demolished 1997.
Refs: Information from from typescript note on Michael Beary written for the IAA by his great niece, Nellie Beary O'Cleirigh, 38 Templemore Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6, 10 Dec 1998.