Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, KILMOYLEY (ARDFERT), CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. KERRY, KILMOYLEY (ARDFERT), CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART (RC)
Date: 1868
Nature: New church, for Father Denis O'Donoghue. Nave, chancel, porch and 1 aisle. FS laid Mar 1871. Dedicated 5 Oct 1873.
Refs: Undated tracing of design for communion rail for this(?) church in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.6/1, and drawing for proposed baptistery rail (possibly for Kilmoyley) by J & C McGloughlin Ltd, also in IAA (76/1.199); IB 10, 15 Dec 1868, 304 (illus.); Thomas P. Kennedy, 'Church Building', History of Irish Catholicism, Vol. 5 (1970), 27; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'A Victorian Partnership - the architecture of Pugin & Ashlin', in J. Graby, ed.,150 Years of Architecture in Ireland: the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland 1839-1989, (RIAI, 1989), 59;  information from Dr Gerard Hyland, citing Stephen Welsh Papers on EW Pugin (1975) in RIBA Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.