Description:

Detached Church of Ireland comprising a single-cell church standing on a crypt designed by James Pain with George Richard Pain c. 1836 in a late Georgian Gothic Revival style and completed in 1844. In 1877, local architects Joseph Fogerty & Son carried out improvements to the church, which included the addition of an extra stage to the tower, a new forecourt and new chancel which incorporated the east window designed by James Pain which was removed from Saint Mary’s Church of Ireland Cathedral and reduced in size. The tower is structurally and visually strengthened by angle corner buttresses. It breaks forward from the façade which has a crenellated parapet and angled corner buttresses which terminate with pinnacles. Lancet windows flank the tower which accommodates the principal entrance at its ground floor stage. Smooth limestone ashlar faced side six-bay single-storey side elevations over coursed and squared limestone crypt elevations. Each bay is articulated by engaged buttressing and terminated with a crenellated parapet which returns from the façade.

Grants Awarded:

2024: €2,500 grant through the IGS London Chapter toward parapet repairs. Conservation architect, Brian Grubb; surveyor, Brian Sheppard (Barry Shepard & Partners).

NIAH Listing:

https://www.buildingsofireland...

References in IGS Bulletins & Journals:

‘Specious and splendid: music, dancing, and social life at Glin Castle, 1781-1854’
Author: Karol Mullaney-Dignam
Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies Vol XIV — 2011
https://search.igsjournal.ie/single-search?rule1=and&terms1=michael%27s&field1=all&from_pub_year=1958&to_pub_year=2024&pdf_type=Select+publication+type&pdf_id=202

‘Nineteenth-century stained glass in the Church of Ireland diocese of Limerick & Killaloe’
Author: David Lawrence
Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies Vol X — 2007
https://search.igsjournal.ie/single-search?rule1=and&terms1=michael%27s&field1=all&from_pub_year=1958&to_pub_year=2024&pdf_type=Select+publication+type&pdf_id=145

‘St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick: unpublished correspondence of the cathedral restoration in the nineteenth century’
Author: Lynda Mulvin
Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies Vol IV — 2001
https://search.igsjournal.ie/single-search?rule1=and&terms1=michael%27s&field1=all&from_pub_year=1958&to_pub_year=2024&pdf_type=Select+publication+type&pdf_id=58