Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, KILGOBBIN, CHURCH (CI)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KERRY, KILGOBBIN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1825
Nature: 'The church, for the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £850, is a handsome building, with a square tower surmounted with pinnacles.  There is aglebe house, for the erection of which the same Board  gave £250 and lent £550, in in 1820; the glebe comprises ten acres.'(Lewis)
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 99;  illus. in  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 391, J.B Leslie, ed. D.W.T. Crooks. Clergy of Limerick - Clergy of Ardfert and Agahadoe: biographical succession lists (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2015), 155, and J.A. Murphy, The Church of Ireland in Co. Kerry (2016), 123 .


Name: WELLAND & GILLESPIE
Building: CO. KERRY, KILGOBBIN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1862
Nature: Repewing, new chancel table and rails, new pulpit and reading desk.
Refs: Designs, signed and dated 30 Sep 1862, in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library Architectural Drawings, www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/ (last visited, Feb 2016).