Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, KILCOLGAN, CHURCH (CI)

Name: FAHY, RICHARD
Building: CO. GALWAY, KILCOLGAN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1819-21
Nature: 'Mr Rich. Fahy, Architect' paid £83.4s.5d, 1819, as 'one third part of his contract for new roofing and reslating the church and for erecting new pews therein'. Second and third payments made in 1820 and 1821.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. GALWAY, KILCOLGAN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1843a
Nature: New church to replace existing one. 4-bay nave and 1-bay chancel. S porch, N robing room. Dedicated 12 Oct 1843. To be consecrated, 14 Aug 1856.
Refs: Signed undated drawing(s), inscr. with date of dedication, in RCB Library, portfolio 19;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette I, No. 5 (Aug1856), 85.