Builder and architect, active in the dioceses of Cashel and Emly in the late 1780s and early 1790s. He is mentioned several times in the Normanton Papers in theHampshire Record Office. He married Eleanor Fogarty in 1791 and sent four sons, all born in Co. Tipperary between 1794 and 1811, to Trinity College, Dublin. He later spelt his name as Luby, and it seems likely that he was closely related to William Luby, 'architectus', whose son William, also born in Co. Tipperary circa 1797, was admitted to Trinity in 1816. There may also be a connection with the Looby family of Tralee (see - LOOBY).
See WORKS.
References
IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44.l.
The date of his marriage was supplied by his descendant Helen Barton, of Melbourne, Australia (Nov 2014).
G.D. Burtchaell & T.U. Sadleir, eds., Alumni Dublinenses (1935), II, 514. The second of the four boys, Thomas (1800-1870), a mathematician and classicist, who became a fellow of the college in 1831, see DIB.
Burtchaell & Sadleir, op. cit., II, 515.
9 work entries listed in chronological order for LOOBY, THOMAS
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CO. TIPPERARY, MOYALIFFE, CHURCH (CI) |
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1789 |
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TL produces plan and estimate for 'Mialiff' (Moyaliffe) and 'Frithmore'(Kilfithmone?) churches. |
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Plan and estimate, 5 Jun 1791, in Hampshire Record Office, Normanton Papers 21M57 B14/3a,b
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CO. TIPPERARY, KILMASTULLA, CHURCH (CI) |
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1791 |
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TL employed at as architect and/or builder. Church described by Lewis as 'plain'. |
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Hampshire Record Office Normanton papers (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), 176.
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CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLETUOHY, GLEBE HOUSE (OLD) |
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1791p |
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TL employed at as architect and/or builder of church and glebe house for Rev. Patrick Hare. |
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Hampshire Record Office Normanton papers (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); unsigned estimate, Jan 1791, in Normanton Papers, 21M57 B14/7
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CO. TIPPERARY, KNOCKGRAFFON |
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? |
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TL builds garden wall. |
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Hampshire Record Office Normanton papers (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).
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CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLETUOHY, CHURCH (CI) |
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? |
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TL employed as architect and/or builder of church and glebe house. (Church closed ca 1926 and dismantled 1929/30.)
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Hampshire Record Office Normanton papers (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).
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