Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CARMELITE CONVENT

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. GALWAY, LOUGHREA, CARMELITE CONVENT
Date: 1829
Nature: 'There is also a convent for nuns of the Carmelite order, founded about the year 1680, and removed to its present site in 1829, when the building, including a chapel, was erected, under the direction of the prior of the abbey at a cost of £5,000, defrayed from the funds of the nunnery.'
Refs: I. Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1846).