Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

As a comparison with the Armagh ceiling, I am attaching some pictures of the ceiling in the College Chapel (JJ. McCarthy) in Maynooth. The Chapel is internally 188 feet long, 40 feet wide and 70 feet high. The ceilig and internal furnishings of the chapel were installed by Robert Browne who subsequently became Bishop of Cloyne and completed the building of St. Colman’s Cathedral. The contract went to JJ. McCarthy’s successor, WIlliam Hague. The artist was N. H. C. Westlake and the execution was left to Robert Mannix of Dublin. The ceiling panels are painted on canvas and affixed to the wooden ceiling. The wok was carried out between March and December 1888: