Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, RATHMULLEN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMB (CI, KILLYGARVAN PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DONEGAL, RATHMULLEN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMB (CI, KILLYGARVAN PARISH)
Date: 1814-1831
Nature: New church begun 1814. Loan of £500 and gift of £300 frim Board of First Fruits. Consecrated (and dedicated to St Peter) 23 Sep 1831.
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.,.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 38: Parishes of Co. Donegal I, 1833-5 (1997), 39; J.B. Leslie, Raphoe Clergy and Parishes (1940), 94-95;F.W. Fawcett and D.W.T. Crooks, eds., Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 155(illus.);  exterior also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 175.

Name: BUCHANAN, ROBERT ECCLES
Building: CO. DONEGAL, RATHMULLEN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMB (CI, KILLYGARVAN PARISH)
Date: 1887
Nature: Alterations, with Hume Babington. Reconsecrated with dedication to St Columb instead of St Peter. Contractor: Michael Deeny, Rathmullen.
Refs: IB 29, 15 Oct 1887, 281; 31, 1 Nov 1889, 267; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 474-475

Name: BABINGTON, HUME
Building: CO. DONEGAL, RATHMULLEN, CHURCH OF ST COLUMB (CI, KILLYGARVAN PARISH)
Date: 1887
Nature: Renovation & enlargement, with R.E. Buchanan. Contractor: Michael Deeny, Rathmullen.  New lighting.
Refs: IB 29, 15 Oct 1887, 281; 31, 1 Nov 1889, 267;  Irish Times, 21 Nov 1889;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 474-475.