Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)

Name: RIORDAN, MICHAEL AUGUSTINE (REV.)
Building: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1826
Nature: New church, designed by MAR.
Refs: Information from Eamonn Hederman, May 2006; see also http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?page=5&t=4691 (2008)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1826-1832p;1841
Nature: New church, nearly completed, Dec 1832. For Dr Michael Collins, Bishop of Ross. Described by Lewis in 1837, as 'a spacious and handsome edifice in the Grecian style, erected in 1826, at an expense of £3000; the interior is fitted up with great taste, and the altar, which is ornamented with a painting of the Crucifixion, is very chaste'. New entrance proposed, 1841.
Refs: Cork Mercantile Chronicle, 12 Dec 1832; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 558; Cork Total Abstainer, 6 Mar 1841

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1833ca
Nature: Monument (marble relief) to Dr Michael Collins, Bishop of Cloyne and Ross (1771-1832).
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 128

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1881-83
Nature: Alts. & adds, for Rev. Dr. William Fitzgerald, Bishop of Ross. Cost: £2,289. Builder: J. Newstead.
Refs: Designs for communion rail, Jun 1882, & Bishop's throne, Mar 1883, and mural tablet to Dr Kelly, and font in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.150; IAA, PKS 0630, B10/14, A06 (Mar 1881); IB 23, 1 Apr 1881, 111; Cork Examiner, 5 May 1883

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1910ca
Nature: Altar in mortuary chapel.
Refs: Drawings, 1 dated 11 Nov 1910, in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.150.