the work of J.J. McCarthy
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Church of St. Mary and St. Laurence, Ballitore, Co. Kildare, by JJ. McCarthy (1860-1863), foundation stone laid by Paul Cardinal Cullen who was born in Ballitore.
Passionist Monastery, Mount Argus, Harold’s Cross, Dublin (1862), and adjoining Church of St Paul of the Cross (1874) by JJ. McCarthy, sculpture on church facade by James Pearse.
Interior 1924
Prax – re the interior of St Josephs, Carrickmacross. seems it has already been done. In conversation with my Dad who has been it, he told me that there is “a piece of garden trellis behind the altar”…
J. J. McCarthy was involved with six of Ireland’s Catholic Cathedrals; St. Patrick’s, Armagh; St. Peter and St. Paul’s, Ennis; St. Aidan’s, Enniscorthy; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Killarney; St. Macartan’s, Monaghan; and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Thurles.
He was the principal designer for Thurles and Monaghan, in Killarney and Enniscorthy he took over from A.W.N. Pugin, in Armagh he followed Thomas Duff, and in Ennis Dominic Madden and Maurice Fitzgerald.
Re Carrickmacross: P. Clerkin’s report (#519) suggests that the church there has falled victim to the Japanese restaurant formula, already used to such effect in the North Cathedral, Cork. What a pity!:(
I have come across these pictures of the interior of St. Saviour’s Dominick Street, Dublin showing the church before the awful havoc wrecked by Austin Flannery OP:
@Praxiteles wrote:
Some very interesting pieces of information from the Clogher diocesan site:
The Diocese of Clogher
St Macartan’s Cathedral
The Sanctuary…
The Sanctuary (Photo by Manuel Lavery)
To encourage maximum participation by the entire congregation in the celebration
of the Eucharist, the altar is given pride of place in the crossing, just at the
point where, because of the deliberate absence of stained glass in the rose
windows of the transepts and in certain other high-level windows, the natural
light of day is brighest and most concentrated. The altar is carved from a single
piece of granite from south County Dublin. As an integral piece of natural stone
it suggests the primeval offering of sacrifice. Its carefully-wrought carving
humanises that concept, so that this great rock is transformed into a table,
inviting the worshipper to partake of the sacred meal in communion with the
Lord.…
😀 😀 😀 laugh out loud reading 😀 😀 😀 classic!
St Michael The Archangel, Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, J.J. McCarthy in the Hiberno-Rpmanesque style 1871:
St. Vincent’s, Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry by J.J. McCarthy 1865
Little remains of the original interior.
The Builder
Jun.15th.1872.Church (R.C.) of St. Mary of the Angels, Dublin
J.J. McCarthyhttps://archiseek.com/2011/1872-design-for-st-mary-of-the-angels-church-street-dublin/#.VBhDB_ldXG4
Is that Church Street with a spire?
JJ McCarthy did James’s Street church (RC) as far as I know, does anyone have a print of it with it’s intended spire?
I wonder if that’s why so many spires were not built; the church exterior is quite plain, but the steeple is very elaborate indeed. Maybe the building committee took fright and held off building it until they could ‘afford’ it, by which time they were all long gone and it never got built.
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