1940 – Former Vocational School, Athy, Co. Kildare
Architect: Buckley & O’Gorman
Designed and constructed between 1938 to 1940, the new Vocational School, later known as St.
1964 – St. Michael the Archangel Church, Athy, Co. Kildare
Architect: O’Connor & Aylward
Compare and contrast this with the wonderful church built by the Dominicans at the same time in the town.
1965 – Library, Former St. Dominic’s Church, Athy, Co Kildare
Architect: John Thompson
An expressive hyperbolic paraboloid-roofed Catholic church built 1963-65 for the Dominican order. Designed by John Thompson (1917-88) working in collaboration with Father Phillip Pollock,
1973 – AIB, Duke Street, Athy, Co. Kildare
Architect: James V. McGrane & Son
Modernist bank building, superseding an earlier bank branch on the same street, on an attractive site alongside the river.
1986 – Municipal Offices, Athy, Co. Kildare
Architect: Keane Murphy Duff
Built for Athy Urban District Council but with the reorganisation of local government, now the Municipal Offices for Athy.
