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Architect, of Dublin. Ralph Henry Byrne was born in Largo House,(1) Rathmines, Dublin, on 25 April 1877, the third - but second surviving - son of WILLIAM HENRY BYRNE WILLIAM HENRY BYRNE . He was educated at home and in England, at St George's School, Weybridge. Under an indenture dated 1 April 1896, he was articled to his father for five years.. He then spent six months in the office of Thomas Edward Marshall in Harrogate before entering into partnership with his father on 10 April 1902.(2) His father became blind in about 1913 and died on 28 April 1917. Following his father's death, Ralph Henry Byrne carried on the business under the name of William H. Byrne & Son. In 1936 he took his wife's nephew SIMON ALOYSIUS LEONARD SIMON ALOYSIUS LEONARD into partnership.
Byrne died at his house, 9 Ailesbury Road, on 15 April 1946 and was buried in Glasnevin cemetery.(5). He had married Mary Josephine Mangan (d. 1957) of Dunboyne Castle, Co. Meath, on 21 November 1905. Their only son, Frank William Barrett Mangan Byrne, a Captain in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, was born in 1910 and died on 30 May 1940.
Byrne's pupils and assistants included ARNOLD FRANCIS HENDY ARNOLD FRANCIS HENDY , SHEILA TINDAL SHEILA TINDAL and GUY HEMINGWAY YEOMAN. GUY HEMINGWAY YEOMAN.
Addresses: Work: 20 Suffolk Street.
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the obituary of R.H. Byrne by 'J.J.R[obinson]' in RIAI Year Book (1946), 37-38, and from information on the Byrne family supplied to Alfred Jones by Ralph Henry Byrne's partner and wife's nephew, Simon Aloysius Leonard. See also the entry on Byrne by Helen Andrews in Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), II, 223-4. For a photograph of Byrne and further information on the practice, see the booklet, William H. Byrne & Son, architects: Centenary 1883-1893, privately printed in Dublin in 1983, of which there is a copy in IAA.
(1) Simon Leonard says Sunbury Gardens, Rathmines, but directories do not give W.H. Byrne at this address until 1883.
(2) IAA, RIAI office archives (Acc. 93/136), membership forms 1878-1909 (extremely fragile).
(3) AJ 49, 30 Apr 1919, 280, and IB 61, 3 May 1919, 204.
(5) Information from monument in Glasnevin cemetery.
(6) See note 2, above.
(10) Information from Thom's directories.
Nature: Neo-Georgian, 2-storey, with hipped roof, Gothic window over door, heavy quoins at corners and string course at 1st-floor level.
Nature: Proposals for comvent block, 1912,1916 (built 1920). Proposed Gothic gates & lodge, 1915 (built 1928). Undated design for high altar in chapel.
Refs: Drawings, 1912,1915, 1916 and undated, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; B, 2 Jun 1916, 420.
Nature: In destroyed area, 1916. Rebuilding. Carving by C.W. Harrison & Sons.
Refs: Drawings, 1916-18, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Building News 112, 7 Mar 1917, 221; IB 59, 3 Mar,29 Sep 1917, 101,493,500; 61, 22 Nov 1919, 533; 63, 10? Sep 1921, 611 (illus.); 64, 12 Aug 1922, 555 (illus.); 81, ? ? 1939, 308 (illus.); AJ 58, 10 Oct 1923, 535-539; advertisement in AAI Green Book (1928), 1927-28, 22; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 218.
Nature: High altar. Executed by E. Sharp, Dublin.
Nature: Renovation. Tenders invited by J. Leonard, PP.
Nature: Improvements. For Marist Fathers.
Refs: IB 59, ? ? 1917, ?
Nature: Structural improvement to S. aisle; additions; extension. Builder: M.J. Greene.
Nature: Proposed new porch (executed but since removed), double-apse billiard room (not built), colonnade in entrance hall, large cottage-style garage.
Nature: Alterations; new outpatients dept. &c. For Irish Sistersof Charity.
Nature: New cottage hospital. 2-bay central block, hipped roof, 2 storey quined corners, flanked by single storey wings.(J.McDonnell says now (1970s) part of garda station). Plans received by Fr. O'Hea.
Refs: Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007) 71(illus.).
Nature: New house for A. O'Donnell. Tenders invited for building same, Jan 1920.
Nature: New 3-storey front with heavy eaves. For Thomas O'Loughlin, wine merchant.
Nature: New Neo-Georgian branch bank..
Nature: Renovation. Tenders invited, Mar 1920.
Nature: Alterations and repairs. Tenders invited.
Nature: Proposed design for H-plan, 2-storey convent with small neo-Georgian chapel. Tenders invited jJul-Aug 1920.
Nature: Repairs, improvements, structural alterations including new sanctuary arch. Tenders invited, Jul 1920.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 15,16 Jul 1920; IB 62, 17 Jul 1920, 483; 63, 2 Jul 1921, 458; 64, 14 Jan,4 Nov 1922, 22,758; 65, ? ? 1923, 779; 67, ? ? 1925, 436.
Nature: Restoration after fire of 26 Jan 1920 in which only Shrine of Perpetual Succour and sacristy survived, 1920-1928; baldacchino & & pulpit, 1939-40.
Refs: Designs, dated 1924-28, 1939-40, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142 (for photographs of interior of church immediately after fire and in its restored state, see Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 116); IB 62, 13 Mar,22 May 1920, 141,163,365; 65, 24 Feb 1923, 134; 66, 14 Jun 1924, 526,1055; 67, ? ? 1925, 436; Freeman's Journal, 11 May 1920; History of Rathmines Parish, http://www.rathminesparish.ie/about-us/parish-history (last visited, Feb 2013).
Nature: Additions to hospital, private hospital and nurses' home. Completion of chapel, 1937.
Refs: Designs, dated 1922ca, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 62, 11 Sep 1920, 581; 63, 2 Jul 1921, 458; 66, 1924, 770; 71, 1929, 106; 73, 1931, 685,763,1016; 74, 1932, 611; 77, 1935, 269,899; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 282.
Refs: Designs, dated 1920,1923,1944, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142.
Nature: Neo-Georgian designs for pair of semi-detached houses.
Nature: Proposed classical refacing of main block; 1920. Proposed Gothic refacing of same, 1928. Proposed additions including neo-Georgian chapel, 1929.
Nature: Rebuilding of part, 1920. Rebuilding, reconstruction of fronts, 1931.
Nature: Additions, 1935. 2-storey flat-roofed block.
Refs: Designs, dated 1935, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son.
Nature: Neo-Georgian assembly hall, 1920 (possibly 1930); 2 storey block, 1920; refectory block, 1935. For Sisters of Jesus and Mary.
Nature: Lady altar, 1920ca?;St Joseph's wing adds, 1928; hall block, 1939; boys' house, 1941; new wing and concert hall, 1942.
Refs: Designs, dated 1920ca?,1928,1939,1941, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 84, 29 Aug 1942, 308,311; IB 84, 29 Aug 1942, 311.
Nature: Design for T-plan, neo-Georgian hall with round headed windows.
Nature: Plans for agricultural school and chapel in grounds, linked to Warrenstown House by corridor.
Nature: Tombstone for grave of Rev. Dr. Donnelly.
Nature: Additions at back of house in Louis XVI/William Kent/Regency style for John Leonard.
Refs: Designs, dated 1922, formerly in W.H. Byrne & Son archive (including J.J. McCarthy's plans for house, 1870), not transferred to IAA.
Nature: New aisle, beyond tower.
Nature: Sanctuary, re-roofing, plastering. Tenders invited Feb 1922.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 5 May 1920; IB 62, 8 May 1920, 329; 64, 1 Jul 1922, 462.
Refs: Designs, dated 1922, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son, not transferred to IAA.
Nature: Classical rebuilding of premises damaged in 1922.
Refs: Designs, dated 1922-24, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 67, ? ? 1925, 105,857; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 216.
Nature: Alterations, painting and renovation, for 5th Earl of Clancarty.
Nature: Proposed Regency-style additions, verandah's &c., for Thomas Mangan, Esq.
Nature: External repairs, 1922. Scheme of improvements, including removal of side walls and incorporation of S portico and St Kevin's chapel within body of church, 1927-8.
Refs: Designs, dated 1927-8,1945-6, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 64, 21 Oct 1922, 722; 69, ? ? 1927, 52; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),129.
Nature: Placed third in competition won by Jones & Kelly.
Nature: Renovations. Archt: 'M.H. Byrne, Dublin'. Misprint for W.H.B.?
Nature: Symmetrical classical building with hipped roof and cupola.
Nature: Proposed enlargement of high altar in High Victorian style.
Nature: Proposals for new bank (2-storey and 3-storey) in neo-Georgian style.
Refs: Designs, dated 1923-24, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; contract drawing, 1924, in IAA, Bank of Ireland drawings collection, Acc. 2006/65.
Nature: New neo-Georgian branch bank. Estimated cost of G. & T. Crampton's tender: £5,880.
Nature: Proposed classical oratory, for Sisters of St John of God.
Nature: Addition of sanctuary to T-plan building.
Refs: Designs, dated 1924, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 445.
Nature: New bank premises with 8-bay neo-Georgian façade with central archted doorway set uder pediment.
Refs: Designs, dated 1924, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 150.
Nature: Repairs and improvements to church (founded 17 Mar 1824).
Nature: Repairs and alts.; restoration; work on grounds. Builder: Cullen, Kilkenny?
Nature: New wing, nurses' home, alts. and adds. Tenders invited for erecting nurses' home (in Mary St), Aug 1931.
Nature: Compensation claim, 1923. Rebuilding, 1925. For Maj. John George Bomford. Cost: £12,045.
Nature: Designs for new Gothic church and high altar. Builder: Felix OHare, Warrenpoint.
Refs: Drawings, 1925, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 67, 1925, 230; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 141.
Nature: Tudoresque gate lodge. Proposal submitted to Dublin Board of Health, Jun 1926.
Refs: Designs, dated 1925, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; Dublin Public Health Housing Collection, No. 758 (in possession of Fingal County Council, 2016).
Nature: Gothic church with bellcote in rock faced ruble with granite dressing . Builder: Felix O'Hare, Warrenpoint.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 141.
Nature: New school. Tenders invited Aug 1926.
Nature: Extension into St Andrew's St (former Jammet's premises). Contractor: G. & T. Crampton. Will cost over £50,000.
Nature: New girls' and infants' school. Tenders invited May 1926.
Nature: Classical, using tower and portico from Ravensdale Park, Co. Louth. FS laid 1 May 1927. Opened Oct 1932. Brass sanctuary gates by J. & C. McGloughlin, Dublin. Mosaic floors by McGuiness & Co., Dundalk.
Refs: Designs, dated 1926,, 1929-32, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 67, ? ? 1925, 230; 68, ? ? 1926, 364; 69, 14 May 1927, 358; 70, ? ? 1928, 282; 74, 8 Oct 1932, 894; information from C.E.B. Brett, citing article by Tony Kieran in Creggan, no. 4, 66; Richard Oram, Ulster's Church Heritage(2001), 47(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 306-308 (illus.).
Nature: Cubicles; extensions (new wing); additions. Builder: Cullen?
Nature: Reconstruction, after having been burnt during Troubles, in domestic Tudor style. For Otway Graham Toler. Builder: G. & T. Crampton. Cost: £38,777.
Refs: Designs, dated 1926, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IAA, PKS 0117 (Jun 1926); IB 68, 21 Aug 1926, 646; photographs of rebuilding in Crampton & Co archives and Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 70-72(illus.).
Nature: Proposed adds. to St Mary's Retreat.
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting new boys' school.
Nature: Classical schemes for rebuilding; kitchen block; adds. to chapel. Rough sketch of proposed improvement submitted to Dublin Board of Public Health, Apr 1932.
Nature: 3-storey, 5-bay neo-Georgian building. Builder: Sheridan Bros. Cost: £8,798.
Refs: Designs, dated 1926, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IAA, PKS 0129, A09 (Nov 1926); 2 contract drawings, 1927, in IAA, Bank of Ireland drawings collection, Acc. 2006/65.
Nature: Restoration after fire damage on 25 Nov 1926. For South City Markets Co. Contractor: A. Breslan.
Nature: New Gothic Revival church. FS laid 10 Jul 1927 by Dr Finegan, Bishop of Kilmore. Contractor: James Wynne, Dundalk.
Refs: Designs, 1926, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 69, 1927, 122; 70, 31 Mar 1928, 280; Carholic Directory (1928), 591; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 288.
Nature: New aisleless church in plain EE style. FS laid 4 Nov 1928. Dedicated 14 Sep 1930 by Bishop of Ossory. Principal contractor: Charles Doyle, Mullingar.
Nature: Alterations after a fire, for Sir Thomas Talbot Power, Bt. Contractor: G. & T. Crampton.
Refs: Designs, dated 1927, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 69.
Refs: Designs, dated 1927, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 71, 1929, 810; Architect & Building News 132, 6 May 1927, 796; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 140-141.
Nature: Neo-Victorian additions and alterations, inclduing new corridor, music room and classrooms.
Refs: Designs, dated 1927-28, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 70, 1928, 422; 72, 1930, 647; Architect & Building News 139, 11 Jul 1930, 59.
Nature: Proposed new presbytery in form of Italianate villa.
Nature: New Classical chapel. Portico screens apse of sanctuary. For Sisters of Mercy. Also 3 classical altars.
Refs: Designs, dated 1928, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son.
Nature: Reconstruction as hotel (after being burned down in 1922 or 1923) for Oliver St John Gogarty. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey. Cost: £23,364.
Nature: Additions and alterations for G.P. Gilpin. Builder: A. Breslan. Cost: £4.691.
Nature: Conversion of police barracks into parochial house.
Nature: New? Builder: Charles Doyle, Mullingar.
Nature: Additions and alterations, for A. Hagan. Contractor: A. Breslan. Cost: £2,414.
Nature: Rebuilding, consisting of addition of new nave to form T-plan church.
Nature: Proposed new wing adjoining chapel; proposed recreation hall.
Nature: New church in Hiberno-Romanesque style.
Nature: Steps from John St; proposed Adamesque stalls &c.
Nature: Repairs, 1928. Addition of W wing, 1939.
Refs: IB 70, 1928, 464; Drawings, 1939, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 259.
Proposal to push high altar forward with screen wall behind it to form sacristy; proposed alterations to nave windows and entrance.
Nature: Scheme for 2 3-bay, 3-storey shops with quoined corners in (existing?) terrace.
Nature: Addition of new drawing room.
Nature: Rebuilding of T-plan church, 1929. New baptistry and sanctuary, 1932.
Nature: New church replacing one erected in 1823, built under shadow of 6th century tower. Dedicated by Dr Naughton, Bishop of Killala, 13 Jul 1930. Builder: John Molloy, Ballina.
Nature: Rebuilding of church retaining T plan; Gothic. Dedicated Aug 1930. Cost: £5,000.
Nature: Additions to 18th-century church. including tower, porches and chancel. Windows made round-headed.
Refs: Design(s) formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 306; exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 252.
Nature: Rebuilding, for Mrs De Bromhead. Contractor: Costen & Sons. Cost:£5,173.
Nature: Addition of 3 bays to nave. New Gothic windows throughout church.
Nature: Additional floor containing new dormitory and corridor.
Nature: New church, 220 x 45 ft.. FS laid Jul 1932. Estimated cost £100,000.
Nature: New cruciform church on site of predecessor.
Nature: New Neo-Irish Romanesque church.
Nature: Classical, with 3-bay single storey façade. Columned door in centre bay. for James Stewart, contractor and joinery manufacturer.
Refs: Detail drawing of duct in IAA, Edward Cullen Collection, Acc. 2004/160 (not on public access).
Nature: Conversion of Newberry Manor (rebuilt on reduced scale after being burnt out in 1921) into home for elderly (in lieu of workhouses and county homes), with additional conventual buildings. Total cost estimated at £100,000. Mortuary. 1934. Gates & lodge (by Simon Leonard?), 1948.
Nature: New classical cathedral to seat 1,600, replacing Gothic T-plan cathedral of 1836. Contract signed 23 Mar 1932. FS laid 6 Aug 1933; dedication 1936; consecration 1939. Contractors: Murphy Bros., Dublin. Cost: £250,000.
Refs: Designs formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Architect & Building News 129, 12 Feb 1932, 240; IB 74, 9 Apr 1932, 334-337(illus.); 75, 12 Aug 1933, 669; 78, ? ? 1936, 146(illus.),359(illus.),774,823(illus.),975; B 156, 16 Jun 1939, 1124; Capuchin Annual 11 (1940), 332; (1941), 246; (1964), 118; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 415-418.
Nature: New hospital on corner of Merrion Sq. (site of Antrim House). Architectural sculpture by Albert Power. Contractor: G. & T. Crampton.
Refs: Designs, dated 1933, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 73, 1931, 830,1071,1103; 74, 13 Feb 1932, 137,164,506,611,846; 75, 1933, 362,1072; 76, 1934, 1069; 77, 1935, 923; 79, 1937, 342 (illus.); Centenary Celebration of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and Conference of The Royal Institute of British Architects 21st to 24th June 1939, 61(illus.); Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 100-103(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 584.
Nature: Conversion of town hall into cinema and ballroom, for Loughrea Town Hall Co. Contractor: John McNally & Co.
Refs: Designs, dated 1931-32 formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son.
Nature: New school for Canon R.F. Bowden. Builder: G.P. Walsh, Harold's Cross.
Nature: Gymnasium room, hall ceiling, 1931-32; extension, 1940.
Refs: Designs for hall ceiling, dated 1935, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 73, ? ? 1931, 685; 74, 2 Jul 1932, 611; 82, ? ? 1940, 320; Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009),25(illus.),26.
Nature: New Gothic church, 1931. Built with funds donated by Miss Jessie Wilson, an English Anglican, who donated her fortune to building of church.
Refs: Designs, dated 1931, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 73, ? ? 1931, 148; Architect & Building News 140, 20 Feb 1931, 294; Liam Swords, Achonry and its churches (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), 92-3(illus.).
Nature: Former garrison church from Athlone rebuilt & extended; high altar. Designs for gates and railings, 1934,1936.
Nature: Proposed addition of apse at E end, chancel arch, porch and bellcote on W front.
Nature: Tenders invited for erection of same.
Nature: Proposed additions: recreation hall block, childrens' chapels, refectory & music room. Builder: Murphy Bros., Castlewood Ave, Dublin.
Refs: Designs, dated 1932, in W.H. Byrne & Son collection, IAA.
Nature: Reconstruction. Builder: W.G. Bulger, Ardee St.
Refs: Drawing (1932) in IAA, Edward Cullen Collection, Acc. 2004/160 (not on public access).
Nature: RB (W.H. Byrne & Son) consulting architects for same.
Refs: Designs, dated 1932, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142.
Nature: New Lombardic-style church in Dungannon brick. FS laid Jul 1934. Consecrated 1936?
Refs: Designs, dated 1932, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 76, 28 Jul 1934, 626; illus. in Sinton Family Trees, http://www.sinton-family-trees.com/church-photos/view.php?pid=238( last visited, Dec 2008); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 515.
Nature: Gothic extension & additions, 1932, 1936; chapel alterations, 1938-39, including altar, new stalls, &c.
Nature: Installation of high altar from Mullingar Cathedral, adapted by Earley & Co.
Nature: Refacing in classical style with round headed windows and door, swags, keystones, rustication.
Nature: Proposed new 2-storey, 7-bay school with 2 wings at back.
Refs: Designs, dated 1933, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son.
Nature: Proposed alterations to Lord Vaux's house for religious use, including creation of apsidal end to existing room to create oratory. For original house seeMary Cecilia Lyons, Illustrated Incumbered Estates Ireland, 1850-1905 (1993), 244(illus.).
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, GRATTAN STREET, BLACKWOOD & CO.
Nature: Tenders invited for reconstruction of business premises.
Nature: Designs appr. 1934 for 3-bay single-storey Classical extension.
Nature: Works at same, for Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge.
Nature: Alterations and additions to house belonging to Good Shepherd Convent.
Nature: New schools( 2-storey with central tower), 1934-35; caretaker's lodge, 1936. Extension, 1952.
Refs: Designs, 1934, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 76, ? ? 1934, 116,158; 77, 1935, 269,1127; 78, 1936, 993 (illus.); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 246,Pl..141 (wrongly attrib. to Michael Scott); Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 60(illus.).
Nature: New Lombardic Romanesque church on centralised plan with dome and campanile. Opened 23 Aug 1936. Contractor: Owen Larkin, Ballinasloe. Cost: £9,570. (Proposed design for high altar 1945).
Refs: Designs, dated 1934-36, 1945, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 156.
Refs: Designs, 1935, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne, not transferred to IAA.
Nature: Proposed new presbytery in stripped neo-Georgian style.
Nature: Red brick with diamond patterning and granite sills. Carved plaque above entrance by Joseph Hammond, 1941.
Nature: Alterations and additions, effectively a rebuilding.
Refs: Designs, dated 1936, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 77, ? ? 1935, 966.
Nature: New Neo-Georgian schools, planned round quadrangular court. Agreed to build, 1936.
Nature: Reconstruction of symmetrical Georgian house with cottage-type domestic wings.
Refs: Designs, dated 1936, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142.
Nature: Reconstruction after destruction by fire of April 1936.
Nature: 2 new classroom blocks.
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting new wing.
Nature: Almost total rebuilding, Gothic, with cruciform spire.
Nature: New church to seat 700. Lombardo-Romanesque with square tower and octagonal dome in centre of church. Nave: 142ft x 42ft.
Nature: Classical, with portico, campanile and apse. FS laid 7 Mar 1937. Cost: £8,000. Opened and blessed, 26 Jun 1938.
Refs: Designs, dated 1936, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 79, 20 Mar 1937, 262; The Mantle 6 (1963); Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 56-57(illus.).
Nature: New chapel, replacing converted Casino. Consecrated 1941.
Nature: Proposed neo-Georgian additions incorporating existing building to form quadrangle 'to be erected at a later date'. For Poor Sisters of Nazareth.
Nature: Restoration of sanctuary, mortuary & porch. New confessionals.
Nature: Sacristies, confraternity block. Neo-Tudor. Builder: J. Wynne & Co.
IB 80, ? ? 1938, 542; Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 88-89(illus.).
Refs: Designs, dated 1938, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son.
Nature: Proposed new parochial house. Stuccoed with 2 bay windows, round-headed door and hipped roof.
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, CEMETERY?
Refs: IB 80, ? ? 1938, 368; 82, ? ? 1940, 714.
Nature: New cathedral on Roman basilica plan with Corinthian portico. Plans approved, Feb 1938. Cornerstone laid 10 Sep 1939. Consecrated and dedicated 1945. Contractor: John Sisk & Son, Cork. Columns of Pavonazetto marble supplied by Dinelli Figli, Pietrasanta, and Installed by Earley & Co.
Refs: Designs, dated 1938-43, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142 IB 80, ?,?,12 Nov 1938, 197,666,801,936(illus.); 83, 1941, 171; 84, 1942, 330(illus.),360(illus.); Capuchin Annual (1941), 258; Book of Kilmore Cathedral (1947); Madeleine Lyons, ed., Building a Business: 150 Years of the Sisk Group, (Dublin: Associated Editions, 2009), 22(illus.),62-63(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 245-249, Pl. 110.
Nature: New Romanesque church to seat 450. Contractor: Owen Larkin, Ballinasloe. Opened and blessed, 15 Oct 1939.
Refs: Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 134,135(illus.).
Nature: Alterations and additions, including oratory in E wing, new dormitories, infirmary &c.
Nature: Design for mortuary chapel.
Nature: Addition of chapel to existing building. Classical style with cupola on roof. Chapel occupies 2 stories of 3-storey building, top storey being service storey.
Nature: New church (replacing church of 1801). FS laid 1940. Builder: Creedon Bros. For James Reddy, PP.
Nature: New lift well in main staircase. Contractor: G. & T. Crampton, Dublin.
Refs: Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 146.
Nature: New Romanesque church to hold 500, with detached campanile. FS laid 1940. Dedicated 1941. Cost: £14,500. Builder: B.McEntaggart, Athlumney, Navan.
Refs: Designs, dated 1935,1940, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son; IB 82, ? ? 1940, 111; 83, 6 Dec 1941, 558; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 108.
Nature: Marble wall lining to sanctuary.
Nature: Proposed new Hiberno Romanesque church.
Nature: Cathedral of St Patrick, Cavan (qv) minus transepts, removed to Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan, when new cathedral built in Cavan. Building re-erected in a simplified form.
Refs: Designs, dated 1941, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; Book of Kilmore Cathedral (1947) (B. of I.); IB 94, 14 May 1952, 542; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 165.
Nature: Unexecuted(?) schemes for church in 11th cent. style.
Proposed rebuilding of T-plan church in stripped classic style with new sanctuary, fittings, altar, galleries &c.
Nature: Presbytery &c. Tenders invited Mar 1941.
Nature: New school to replace old wooden building, for St John of God Sisters. Cost £17,000. Builder: John Hearne & Son, Waterford. Foreman: T. McGrath. Formally opened 11 Jul 1941.
Nature: Re-ordering of chapel sanctuary; proposed additions.
Nature: Proposed convent with classical chapel, 1942, and bridge to same, 1948.
Nature: Rebuilding of 3-storey dormitory wing (after fire), for Poor Clare Sisters.
Refs: Designs, dated 1943, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 86, ? ? 1944, 48; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 252.
Nature: Remodelling of church built in 1861, including removal of sanctuary to W end, new sacristy, conversion of old sacristy into porch and baptistry, new limestone altar and replacement of roof. Contractor: J. Burke, Ballindereen. Cost: £3,000.
Refs: Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 44-45(illus.).
Nature: New 4-storey hospital on inverted T plan opened May 1945 after two years building. Cost: £50,000.
Nature: Proposed circular tabernacle for high altar.Doors with vine pattern and alpha and omega characters.
Nature: New stone-built Gothic church.
Nature: Restoration of existing house (Riverstown House) and proposed boys' school block with central tower.
Refs: Drawings, dated 1947, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son.
Nature: Baldacchino in cemetery, 20th cent. By RHB?
Nature: Classical porch added in 1940s or 1950s.
Mcdermott, Matthew J. 'William H. Byrne and Son' 1980 RIAI Year Book (1980), 63-5.

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