Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, CHURCH OF SS MARY & MICHAEL (RC)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, CHURCH OF SS MARY & MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1856-1860
Nature: Transitional Gothic. For PP, Father Galvin, made possible by bequest from his predecessor, Father Kenna. FS laid 3 Jun 1856; ded. by Cardinal Cullen 22 Jul 1860. Cost: £6,000. Clerk of Works: Mr Crimean.   (Irish Times, 7 Nov 1881, 5, states that church was designed by John Bourke.)
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, MS p1/2, also Registrum Archdioc. Dub., MS p7/2, p.135; B 16, 27 Mar 1858, 214; DB 1, 1 Aug 1859, 103;  IB 11, 1 May 1869, 111; Repertorium Novum (1961-2), 191-6; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 47

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, CHURCH OF SS MARY & MICHAEL (RC)
Date: 1880
Nature: Design for hexagonal pulpit, for Rev. Fr Cartney, with Midleton red marble central column and 4 serpentine surrounding columns. Did Ashlin design pulpit and altar which was consecrated by Archbishop of Dublin, 6 Nov 1881? See Irish Times, 7 Nov 1881, 5.)
Refs: Drawing of design for pulpit in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman Collection, 76/1.208.