reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

Re Fr. Matt Horgan (1779-1849) of Blarney and his connection with Daniel Maclise the following:

In 1832 Daniel Maclise made an excursion through Oxford and the midland counties of England, before travelling to Ireland, via Holyhead. Accompanied by Crofton Croker, he arrived in Cork, where they were guests of honour at the All Hallow’s Eve party which was held annually, in a large barn, by Fr. Mathew Horgan, parish priest at Blarney. Fr. Horgan (1774-1849) was well-known as an idealistic, scholarly and energetic pastor, who shared his interest in Irish language and history with Cork antiquarians John Windele and Abraham Abell. Maurice Craig records the earliest example of the Hiberno-Romanesque revival in Ireland as being the round tower built by Horgan in the churchyard at Ballygibbon, near Blarney, in 1837. [M. Craig, p. 301] Horgan also designed churches at White Church and Waterloo in the Diocese of Cloyne, as well as the former Cobh Cathedral. [T. F. McNamara, p. 136] The evenings festivities of 1832 at Fr. Horgan’s barn were to be the inspiration for a large painting entitled Snap Apple Night, which Maclise exhibited at the Royal Academy the following year. Maclise’s biographer, Justin O’Driscoll describes the party:

It was the invariable custom of the good priest to invite a large party on All Hallows Eve; it was a social gathering where persons of superior position in society were to be found unaffectedly mingling with the poorest peasantry of the parish. Crofton Croker and Maclise were invited to this entertainment, and whilst the young artist, charmed with the novelty of the scene, surrendered himself heart and soul to the enjoyment of the night and joined in the harmless hilarity that prevailed, he contrived to sketch every group in the barn. [W. J. O’Driscoll, A Memoir of Daniel Maclise R. A. (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1871, p. 31]

Attending Fr. Horgan’s Hallowe’en party as a celebrity guest was only one of a number of honours accorded Maclise on his visit to Cork. Some weeks earlier, on October 1st, as the Cork Constitution related, he and John Hogan were presented with medals by the Society of Fine Arts, ‘on their return to their native city’:

A few views of Fr. Matt Horgan’s Round Tower at Waterloo, Blarney, Co. Cork

Yet more clutter… this time its a legal requirement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6560899.stm

@THE_Chris wrote:

I often wondered what that was… can see it from the main Cork – Limerick road.

And from the Cork-Dublin railway line.

P.S. I am inclined to think that the figure with the pipe seen in profile near the fire in Maclise’s picture is probably Fr. Horgan while the figure seen in the light of the fire may well be the antiquarian Crofton Croker.

@Praxiteles wrote:

Are there works going on at the church in Youghal at present? It is difficult to obtain any information about them if there are.

Here are some more photos of St. Mary’s, Youghal

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@james1852 wrote:

There are photos of Fethard PC, Co. Tipperary. One taken in the 1920s and the other recently.

A crying shame……:eek:

Again in connection with St. Mary’s Church, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Praxiteles is grateful to RB for supplying a 19th century document which that the gates, Railing and Pallasiding in front of St. Mary’s Church, Buttevant, was were erected in 1863 and in 1864.

“The stone was got from Copstown quarry. It was cut by Regan of Doneraile. A man named Murphy supplied the railings and W.H. Lysaght is credited with the erection of the massive gates. [The Parish Priest] was obliged to pay half the expense of flagging and kerbstones in front of the church. The County [Grand Jury] paid the other half.

The Regan of Doneraile mentioned above is the family of stone masons about which a separate thread already exists on Archiseek.

Former Pulpit from Armagh Cathedral:

In Situ:

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and this is what became of it (think its part of the canopy):

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With reference to posting # 2702, Praxiteles has just checked Nancy Weston’s biography of Daniel Maclise and indeed the profile figure lighting the pipe is Fr. Horgan, PP of Blarney. The character illuninated by the fire is Crofton Croker collecting material for his Researches in the South of Ireland; the girl in the left front corner is Isabella Maclise, the artist’s sister, wearing a shawl depicting Daniel O’Connell; Dr. John McEvers dances the jig brandishing a shillelagh; Sir Walter Scott, Maclise’s patron, sits a table of whiskey drinkers warning a mother that granny is feeding whiskey to the babe in arms while a blind piper has whiskey poured into his mouth while he plays.

@Fearg wrote:

Former Pulpit from Armagh Cathedral:

In Situ:

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and this is what became of it (think its part of the canopy):

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Is that a pair of overalls suspended from within the tester? The once-beautiful marble appears to have been scorched. Had a fire occurred in Armagh Cathedral? Or might the canopy have provided a sheltering lea for some vagrant’s bonfire.

This is an utterly damning photograph.