1901 – Our Lady Of The Rosary Church, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Architect: Walter G. Doolin
In 1876 a new church to a design by J.J. O’Callaghan began construction in Castlebar,
1907 – Design for Bonniconlan Church, Co. Mayo
Architect: Doolin, Butler, and Donnelly
“This is an old-fashioned country church, with low walls and low-pitched roof. The present scheme provides for raising the walls 3ft.
1909 – Town Hall, Swinford, Co. Mayo
Architect: Joseph Cairns
Simple, almost domestic townhall for Swinford. Reported in the Tuam Herald, “Mr. Cairns, C.E., has been entrusted with the preparation of plan and specification for a Town Hall in Swinford,
1913 – St. Cronan’s Church, Balla, Co. Mayo
Architect: R.M. Butler, Doolin & Butler
This church is considered as one of the best designed by R.M. Butler and was commissioned at the same time as his church in Newport which it resembles.
1915 – Railway Terminus, Blacksod Bay, Co. Mayo
Architect: Hoare & Wheeler
Unbuilt proposal for a large railway terminus to serve a trans-atlantic liner terminal that would have seen Liverpool ousted not just as the transatlantic departure point for British passenger traffic,
1919 – St. Patrick’s Church, Newport, Co. Mayo
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
Church in an amalgam of Irish and Germanic Romanesque, built with a donation of £10,000 from Martin Carey.
1941 – Open Air Theatre, Achill, Co. Mayo
Architect: Noel W. Moffett
Designed for for Major D.J. Freyer, a member of the International Folk-Dance Committee, and whose home,
1967 – Our Lady Queen of Ireland Basilica, Knock, Mayo
Architect: Daithi Hanly
Formerly the Dublin City Architect, Daithi Hanly has resigned in the mid 1960s to conduct private practice.
1989 – Reconciliation Chapel, Knock, Co. Mayo
Architect: de Blacam & Meagher
The Chapel of Reconciliation was the award winning entry of an architectural competition held in the autumn of 1989.
1992 – Apparition Chapel, Knock, Mayo
Architect: A & D Wejchert
The Apparition Chapel is designed to seat 150 people and to house the tableau depicting the apparition of Our Lady at Knock on 21st August 1879.
