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RIORDAN, TIMOTHY
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Architect, of Doneraile, Co. Cork, listed as such in Pigot & Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824), (1) Possibly a son of JAMES RIORDAN . He may be the Timothy Riordan who was architect and contractor for the Catholic church at Ovens, Co. Cork, in 1831.(2)
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(1) p.264.
(2) Rev. James Coombes, 'Catholic Churches of the Nineteenth Century: some newspaper sources', JCHAS 81 (Part 1, Jan-Jun 1975), 4; according to Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 89, it was built in 1835.
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Building: | CO. CORK, OVENS, CHURCH (RC) |
Date: | 1831p |
Nature: | TR architect and contractor for same; 'a handsome edifice of hewn limestone, in the mixed Gothic and Grecian style of architecture'(Lewis). FS laid Jul 1831 by Rev. W. O'Brien, PP. |
Refs: | Southern Reporter, 19 Jul 1831; Rev. James Coombes, 'Catholic Churches of the Nineteenth Century: some newspaper sources', JCHAS 81 (Part 1, Jan-Jun 1975), 4 (gives date as 1831); S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 89 (gives date as 1835). |