Selected: CO. CLARE, NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS, CHURCH (CI, KILNASOOLAGH PARISH)
| Name: | KIDWELL, WILLIAM * |
| Building: | CO. CLARE, NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS, CHURCH (CI, KILNASOOLAGH PARISH) |
| Date: | 1717p |
| Nature: | Monument to Sir Donogh O'Brien. |
| Refs: | Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 3, Figs. 12 |
| Name: | PAIN, JAMES |
| Building: | CO. CLARE, NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS, CHURCH (CI, KILNASOOLAGH PARISH) |
| Date: | 1815;1837 |
| Nature: | New church, 1815. Described by Lewis as 'a large and handsome building with a tower surmounted by a spire...rebuilt in 1815, at an expense of about £1500, towards which the same Board [of First Fruits] granted a loan of £900'. JP makes survey plans of church and vaults, 1837. |
| Refs: |
Plans, s. & d.1837, in NLI, AD 2593,2594; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 194; David Lee, 'James and George Pain - Gothic Architects' in David Lee & Christine Gonzalez, eds., Georgian Limerick 1714-1845, II (Limerick Civic Trust, 2000), 233; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 27-29(illus.); Adrian Hewson, ed., Inspiring Stones: a history of the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, Kilmacduagh & Emly (1995), 103(illus.); exterior illus. in Clergy of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2010). |
| Name: | INCHIQUIN, ETHEL JANE, DOWAGER LADY |
| Building: | CO. CLARE, NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS, CHURCH (CI, KILNASOOLAGH PARISH) |
| Date: | 1930 |
| Nature: | 'At a special vestry meeting in September of 1930, the Dowager Lady Inchiquin submitted a design for a Lych Gate which she desired to erect to the memory of her late husband, at the entrance to the new graveyard to the rear of the church. The beauty and appropriateness of the Lych Gate was greatly admired by all and permission was immediately granted for her to proceed. The Lych Gate was constructed by master stonemasons the Clancy’s of Moohaun.' |
| Refs: | Edwin R. Bailey, Kilnasoolagh Church: an Appreciation (1992), 13(illus.) for copy of this booklet see http://churchofirelandclare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PG000022.pdf). |