Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. FERMANAGH, LISBELLAW, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, LISBELLAW, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1764
Nature: 'The church, or chapel of ease to the parochial church of Cleenish, is neat edifice, built in 1764 by Lord Rosse [ie. Sir Ralph Gore,cr. 1st Earl pf Ross, 1772] , who was interred in a vault beneath'. (Lewis) Church enlarged and altered between 1841 and 1854 and bell tower added, 1894 (Costegalde & Walker).
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 277;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979),356;  illus. in Clergy of Clogher  (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), 70;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 151(illus.).

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, LISBELLAW, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1853
Nature: Reseating, pulpit, desk
Refs: Drawing in RCB Library, portfolio 3A