Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, RATHKEALE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LIMERICK, RATHKEALE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1825?-1831
Nature: 'The church is a very handsome edifice, in the early English style, with a lofty square tower, embattled and crowned with crocketed pinnacles: it was erected in 1831, near the site of the former church, and is built of black marble raised  from a quarry on the river's bank near the town…'
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 500;  Adrian Hewson, ed., Inspiring Stones: a history of the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, Kilmacduagh & Emly (1995), 150-152(illus.), which gives date as 1825;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 388. 


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LIMERICK, RATHKEALE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1877
Nature: Funds being collected for new chancel.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 220, Jul 1877, 221

Name: O'BRIEN, CATHERINE *
Building: CO. LIMERICK, RATHKEALE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1931;1937
Nature: East window (Parable of the Sower), 1931. South-eastmost nave window (double lancet, St Paul & St Luke), 1937
Refs: Gloine, http://www.gloine.ie/gloine/diocese/building/3104 (last visited, Feb 2017).