Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, DRUM, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DRUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1828
Nature: 'A chapel of ease to Currin church was built by a grant of £830 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1828.'
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 510;  illus. in Clergy of Clogher  (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 44.

Name: HARDY, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DRUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: AH makes survey of existing church prior to enlargement.
Refs: Signed survey drawing in RCB Library, portfolio 3A

Name: WELLAND, WILLIAM JOHN
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DRUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1860
Nature: Addition of S aisle.
Refs: Signed, dated drawing in RCB Library, portfolio 3A; DB 2, 1 Sep 1860, 330; illus. in Clergy of Clogher (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), Part 1, 44; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 320.
 

Name: JERVOIS, WILLIAM SAMPSON
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DRUM, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1902
Nature: Restoration and alterations, including new open pitch pine roof, replacement of old box pews with 'new open pews of modern design',, new heating syste.  Work  'almost completed' in Nov 1902.  Contractor: J. Bloomfield, Brookborough, Co. Fermanagh.
Refs: Irish Times, 10 Nov 1902.