Walter Glynn Doolin received his architectural training from his father, William Doolin, and in the office of J.J. O’Callaghan and subsequently in London as an assistant in the office of William Burges. Doolin died at his home on 10 March 1902, aged only fifty-two, and was buried at Glasnevin cemetery. After his death the practice was carried on by his partner, Rudolf Maximilian Butler and joined within a few months by James L. Donnelly under the name of Doolin, Butler & Donnelly. Donnelly had left the practice by the spring of 1908, and it reverted to Doolin & Butler until Butler dropped the name Doolin in 1915.
Designed by John Roberts the original structure of this church dates from the late-eighteenth century while the tympanum and other so-called embellishments were added by W.G Doolin in 1890.
“We publish herewith an illustration of a new warehouse about to be erected for Messrs.
Proposed and unbuilt design for Canon Smithwick. “The work is intended to be carried out in two stages,
Unbuilt proposal in an architectural competition. Four years later, a design by J.J. O’Callaghan was constructed.
Illustration published in 1890 in The Irish Builder after the church was erected “some time”.
As a result of an architectural competition held in 1880, Walter G. Doolin`s designs for a new markethall were adopted.
House design exhibited in Dublin in 1882 and published in The Irish Builder 1884.
Unsuccessful entry in a limited competition to design a new church in 1884. By 1887,
Country villa designed for W. Doherty. Published in The Irish Builder, and design exhibited at the RHA.
St Cartage’s Parish Church was officially opened in 1884, and is regarded as one of the finest examples of Lombardo-Romanesque churches in Ireland.
