Patrick Byrne
A noted Irish Architect.
The cemetery records note that he died, aged 81, at his residence, 41 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, and was buried on 11 January 1864.
The following biography was taken from The Dictionary of Irish Architects
Architect, of Dublin.
Patrick Byrne, son of John Byrne, who was born in 1782 or 1783, appears to have studied under HENRY AARON BAKER at the Dublin Society's Schools, where a Patrick Byrne was admitted on 4 February 1796 and won a second-class premium in 1797 and a first-class premium in 1798. In 1813 he exhibited a 'View of the East Portico of the National Bank and part of Trinity College, Dublin' and a 'Design for a Green House' at the Society of Artists of the City of Dublin (nos. 10 and 163), and in 1819 an 'elevation of a Lodge designed for the Country residence of a small Family' and a 'S.E. View of the Custom-house, Dublin' at the Artists of Ireland, Dublin (nos. 95 and 98). Two drawings by him of St. Patrick's Cathedral were engraved for W. Monck Mason's History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St Patrick (1820) and another engraving of the Archbishop's Palace at Tallaght, which Monck Mason published in 1818, was based on a sketch by him.
From 1820 until 1848 Byrne worked, first as measurer and then as architect, for the Wide Streets Commissioners; this may account for his being referred to as City Architect by both The Builder and the Dublin Builder. From 1847 until 1851 he was architect to the Trustees of the Royal Exchange.
Byrne died on 10 January 1864 at the age of eighty-one, his latter years having been 'embittered by painful pecuniary difficulties'. He was buried in the family plot at Glasnevin cemetery on 11 January with Mary Byrne, presumably his wife, who had died in 1856 aged seventy-two, and with his son and assistant, JOHN F. BYRNE, who had predeceased him by some nine months.
HUGH BYRNE was another son and PATRICK JAMES BYRNE was a grandson. Patrick Byrne's library 'consisting of a beautiful and expensive Collection of the best Works on Architecture and Civil Engineering' was sold at auction in Dublin in February 1864. Byrne was a subscriber to William Stitt's The Practical Architect's Ready Assistant; or Builder's Complete Companion (Dublin, 1819).
William Meagher, parish priest of Rathmines Church, gives the following eulogy of Byrne: 'Of this gifted man whose talents and disinterested care have laid us under such obligations, of him who designed the portico of St Paul's and erected the majestic shrine of St Audoen's and the solemn cathedral-like pile of St James and the bold and beauteous dome of our Lady of Refuge, of the accomplished and good and generous Patrick Byrne how truly may it not be said that he regarded the beauties of classical and mediaeval art with equal reverence, studied their several excellencies with equal assiduity & wrought upon the principles of both with equally supereminent success.'
~Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1831-1860
Nature: PB architect to cemetery. Designed entrance lodge and gates, temple, chapel, Finglas Road gate, 1845, O'Connell Circle, &c.
Amongst the Dublin Churches for which he is most famous, are
The Portico of St. Paul's, Arran Quay, Dublin.
St. John the Baptist, Clontarf Road,
Loreto Abbey Chapel, Rathfarnham, [possibly designed by Pugin]
St. Audeon's, High Street,
St. John the Baptist, Blackrock,
Our Lady of the Visitation, Fairview,
Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines,
SS Alphonsus & Columba, Ballybrack,
St. Mary's, Enniskerry,
Sacred Heart, Donnybrook,
Three Patrons, Rathgar,
of this latter church, the external is disappointing but the interior is very fine.
He also designed Goldenbridge Cemetery and Glasnevin Cemetery.
In the original layout of the cemetery, the Byrne family plot was in the area then known as The Chapel Circle. The name was later revised to Garden.
Buried in plot XA 34 - 35 Garden/Chapel Circle are
William Byrne, aged 20, died 1842, XA 35
Isabella Anne Byrne, died 10 Apr. 1853, aged 7 years and 9 months, XA 35
Mary Byrne, aged 72, died 8 Mar. 1856, aged 72, XA 34.5
John F. Byrne, aged 50, died 14 Apr. 1863, XA 34.5
Patrick Byrne, aged 81, died 10 Jan. 1864, XA 34
Richard Hawkins, aged 59, died 28 Jan. 1864, XA 35
Frances Byrne, aged 50, died 25 May 1865, XA 34
Hugh Byrne, aged 58, died 6 Aug. 1866, XA 34.
A noted Irish Architect.
The cemetery records note that he died, aged 81, at his residence, 41 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, and was buried on 11 January 1864.
The following biography was taken from The Dictionary of Irish Architects
Architect, of Dublin.
Patrick Byrne, son of John Byrne, who was born in 1782 or 1783, appears to have studied under HENRY AARON BAKER at the Dublin Society's Schools, where a Patrick Byrne was admitted on 4 February 1796 and won a second-class premium in 1797 and a first-class premium in 1798. In 1813 he exhibited a 'View of the East Portico of the National Bank and part of Trinity College, Dublin' and a 'Design for a Green House' at the Society of Artists of the City of Dublin (nos. 10 and 163), and in 1819 an 'elevation of a Lodge designed for the Country residence of a small Family' and a 'S.E. View of the Custom-house, Dublin' at the Artists of Ireland, Dublin (nos. 95 and 98). Two drawings by him of St. Patrick's Cathedral were engraved for W. Monck Mason's History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St Patrick (1820) and another engraving of the Archbishop's Palace at Tallaght, which Monck Mason published in 1818, was based on a sketch by him.
From 1820 until 1848 Byrne worked, first as measurer and then as architect, for the Wide Streets Commissioners; this may account for his being referred to as City Architect by both The Builder and the Dublin Builder. From 1847 until 1851 he was architect to the Trustees of the Royal Exchange.
Byrne died on 10 January 1864 at the age of eighty-one, his latter years having been 'embittered by painful pecuniary difficulties'. He was buried in the family plot at Glasnevin cemetery on 11 January with Mary Byrne, presumably his wife, who had died in 1856 aged seventy-two, and with his son and assistant, JOHN F. BYRNE, who had predeceased him by some nine months.
HUGH BYRNE was another son and PATRICK JAMES BYRNE was a grandson. Patrick Byrne's library 'consisting of a beautiful and expensive Collection of the best Works on Architecture and Civil Engineering' was sold at auction in Dublin in February 1864. Byrne was a subscriber to William Stitt's The Practical Architect's Ready Assistant; or Builder's Complete Companion (Dublin, 1819).
William Meagher, parish priest of Rathmines Church, gives the following eulogy of Byrne: 'Of this gifted man whose talents and disinterested care have laid us under such obligations, of him who designed the portico of St Paul's and erected the majestic shrine of St Audoen's and the solemn cathedral-like pile of St James and the bold and beauteous dome of our Lady of Refuge, of the accomplished and good and generous Patrick Byrne how truly may it not be said that he regarded the beauties of classical and mediaeval art with equal reverence, studied their several excellencies with equal assiduity & wrought upon the principles of both with equally supereminent success.'
~Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1831-1860
Nature: PB architect to cemetery. Designed entrance lodge and gates, temple, chapel, Finglas Road gate, 1845, O'Connell Circle, &c.
Amongst the Dublin Churches for which he is most famous, are
The Portico of St. Paul's, Arran Quay, Dublin.
St. John the Baptist, Clontarf Road,
Loreto Abbey Chapel, Rathfarnham, [possibly designed by Pugin]
St. Audeon's, High Street,
St. John the Baptist, Blackrock,
Our Lady of the Visitation, Fairview,
Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines,
SS Alphonsus & Columba, Ballybrack,
St. Mary's, Enniskerry,
Sacred Heart, Donnybrook,
Three Patrons, Rathgar,
of this latter church, the external is disappointing but the interior is very fine.
He also designed Goldenbridge Cemetery and Glasnevin Cemetery.
In the original layout of the cemetery, the Byrne family plot was in the area then known as The Chapel Circle. The name was later revised to Garden.
Buried in plot XA 34 - 35 Garden/Chapel Circle are
William Byrne, aged 20, died 1842, XA 35
Isabella Anne Byrne, died 10 Apr. 1853, aged 7 years and 9 months, XA 35
Mary Byrne, aged 72, died 8 Mar. 1856, aged 72, XA 34.5
John F. Byrne, aged 50, died 14 Apr. 1863, XA 34.5
Patrick Byrne, aged 81, died 10 Jan. 1864, XA 34
Richard Hawkins, aged 59, died 28 Jan. 1864, XA 35
Frances Byrne, aged 50, died 25 May 1865, XA 34
Hugh Byrne, aged 58, died 6 Aug. 1866, XA 34.
Patrick Byrne
A noted Irish Architect.
The cemetery records note that he died, aged 81, at his residence, 41 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, and was buried on 11 January 1864.
The following biography was taken from The Dictionary of Irish Architects
Architect, of Dublin.
Patrick Byrne, son of John Byrne, who was born in 1782 or 1783, appears to have studied under HENRY AARON BAKER at the Dublin Society's Schools, where a Patrick Byrne was admitted on 4 February 1796 and won a second-class premium in 1797 and a first-class premium in 1798. In 1813 he exhibited a 'View of the East Portico of the National Bank and part of Trinity College, Dublin' and a 'Design for a Green House' at the Society of Artists of the City of Dublin (nos. 10 and 163), and in 1819 an 'elevation of a Lodge designed for the Country residence of a small Family' and a 'S.E. View of the Custom-house, Dublin' at the Artists of Ireland, Dublin (nos. 95 and 98). Two drawings by him of St. Patrick's Cathedral were engraved for W. Monck Mason's History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St Patrick (1820) and another engraving of the Archbishop's Palace at Tallaght, which Monck Mason published in 1818, was based on a sketch by him.
From 1820 until 1848 Byrne worked, first as measurer and then as architect, for the Wide Streets Commissioners; this may account for his being referred to as City Architect by both The Builder and the Dublin Builder. From 1847 until 1851 he was architect to the Trustees of the Royal Exchange.
Byrne died on 10 January 1864 at the age of eighty-one, his latter years having been 'embittered by painful pecuniary difficulties'. He was buried in the family plot at Glasnevin cemetery on 11 January with Mary Byrne, presumably his wife, who had died in 1856 aged seventy-two, and with his son and assistant, JOHN F. BYRNE, who had predeceased him by some nine months.
HUGH BYRNE was another son and PATRICK JAMES BYRNE was a grandson. Patrick Byrne's library 'consisting of a beautiful and expensive Collection of the best Works on Architecture and Civil Engineering' was sold at auction in Dublin in February 1864. Byrne was a subscriber to William Stitt's The Practical Architect's Ready Assistant; or Builder's Complete Companion (Dublin, 1819).
William Meagher, parish priest of Rathmines Church, gives the following eulogy of Byrne: 'Of this gifted man whose talents and disinterested care have laid us under such obligations, of him who designed the portico of St Paul's and erected the majestic shrine of St Audoen's and the solemn cathedral-like pile of St James and the bold and beauteous dome of our Lady of Refuge, of the accomplished and good and generous Patrick Byrne how truly may it not be said that he regarded the beauties of classical and mediaeval art with equal reverence, studied their several excellencies with equal assiduity & wrought upon the principles of both with equally supereminent success.'
~Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1831-1860
Nature: PB architect to cemetery. Designed entrance lodge and gates, temple, chapel, Finglas Road gate, 1845, O'Connell Circle, &c.
Amongst the Dublin Churches for which he is most famous, are
The Portico of St. Paul's, Arran Quay, Dublin.
St. John the Baptist, Clontarf Road,
Loreto Abbey Chapel, Rathfarnham, [possibly designed by Pugin]
St. Audeon's, High Street,
St. John the Baptist, Blackrock,
Our Lady of the Visitation, Fairview,
Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines,
SS Alphonsus & Columba, Ballybrack,
St. Mary's, Enniskerry,
Sacred Heart, Donnybrook,
Three Patrons, Rathgar,
of this latter church, the external is disappointing but the interior is very fine.
He also designed Goldenbridge Cemetery and Glasnevin Cemetery.
In the original layout of the cemetery, the Byrne family plot was in the area then known as The Chapel Circle. The name was later revised to Garden.
Buried in plot XA 34 - 35 Garden/Chapel Circle are
William Byrne, aged 20, died 1842, XA 35
Isabella Anne Byrne, died 10 Apr. 1853, aged 7 years and 9 months, XA 35
Mary Byrne, aged 72, died 8 Mar. 1856, aged 72, XA 34.5
John F. Byrne, aged 50, died 14 Apr. 1863, XA 34.5
Patrick Byrne, aged 81, died 10 Jan. 1864, XA 34
Richard Hawkins, aged 59, died 28 Jan. 1864, XA 35
Frances Byrne, aged 50, died 25 May 1865, XA 34
Hugh Byrne, aged 58, died 6 Aug. 1866, XA 34.
A noted Irish Architect.
The cemetery records note that he died, aged 81, at his residence, 41 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, and was buried on 11 January 1864.
The following biography was taken from The Dictionary of Irish Architects
Architect, of Dublin.
Patrick Byrne, son of John Byrne, who was born in 1782 or 1783, appears to have studied under HENRY AARON BAKER at the Dublin Society's Schools, where a Patrick Byrne was admitted on 4 February 1796 and won a second-class premium in 1797 and a first-class premium in 1798. In 1813 he exhibited a 'View of the East Portico of the National Bank and part of Trinity College, Dublin' and a 'Design for a Green House' at the Society of Artists of the City of Dublin (nos. 10 and 163), and in 1819 an 'elevation of a Lodge designed for the Country residence of a small Family' and a 'S.E. View of the Custom-house, Dublin' at the Artists of Ireland, Dublin (nos. 95 and 98). Two drawings by him of St. Patrick's Cathedral were engraved for W. Monck Mason's History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St Patrick (1820) and another engraving of the Archbishop's Palace at Tallaght, which Monck Mason published in 1818, was based on a sketch by him.
From 1820 until 1848 Byrne worked, first as measurer and then as architect, for the Wide Streets Commissioners; this may account for his being referred to as City Architect by both The Builder and the Dublin Builder. From 1847 until 1851 he was architect to the Trustees of the Royal Exchange.
Byrne died on 10 January 1864 at the age of eighty-one, his latter years having been 'embittered by painful pecuniary difficulties'. He was buried in the family plot at Glasnevin cemetery on 11 January with Mary Byrne, presumably his wife, who had died in 1856 aged seventy-two, and with his son and assistant, JOHN F. BYRNE, who had predeceased him by some nine months.
HUGH BYRNE was another son and PATRICK JAMES BYRNE was a grandson. Patrick Byrne's library 'consisting of a beautiful and expensive Collection of the best Works on Architecture and Civil Engineering' was sold at auction in Dublin in February 1864. Byrne was a subscriber to William Stitt's The Practical Architect's Ready Assistant; or Builder's Complete Companion (Dublin, 1819).
William Meagher, parish priest of Rathmines Church, gives the following eulogy of Byrne: 'Of this gifted man whose talents and disinterested care have laid us under such obligations, of him who designed the portico of St Paul's and erected the majestic shrine of St Audoen's and the solemn cathedral-like pile of St James and the bold and beauteous dome of our Lady of Refuge, of the accomplished and good and generous Patrick Byrne how truly may it not be said that he regarded the beauties of classical and mediaeval art with equal reverence, studied their several excellencies with equal assiduity & wrought upon the principles of both with equally supereminent success.'
~Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY
Date: 1831-1860
Nature: PB architect to cemetery. Designed entrance lodge and gates, temple, chapel, Finglas Road gate, 1845, O'Connell Circle, &c.
Amongst the Dublin Churches for which he is most famous, are
The Portico of St. Paul's, Arran Quay, Dublin.
St. John the Baptist, Clontarf Road,
Loreto Abbey Chapel, Rathfarnham, [possibly designed by Pugin]
St. Audeon's, High Street,
St. John the Baptist, Blackrock,
Our Lady of the Visitation, Fairview,
Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, Rathmines,
SS Alphonsus & Columba, Ballybrack,
St. Mary's, Enniskerry,
Sacred Heart, Donnybrook,
Three Patrons, Rathgar,
of this latter church, the external is disappointing but the interior is very fine.
He also designed Goldenbridge Cemetery and Glasnevin Cemetery.
In the original layout of the cemetery, the Byrne family plot was in the area then known as The Chapel Circle. The name was later revised to Garden.
Buried in plot XA 34 - 35 Garden/Chapel Circle are
William Byrne, aged 20, died 1842, XA 35
Isabella Anne Byrne, died 10 Apr. 1853, aged 7 years and 9 months, XA 35
Mary Byrne, aged 72, died 8 Mar. 1856, aged 72, XA 34.5
John F. Byrne, aged 50, died 14 Apr. 1863, XA 34.5
Patrick Byrne, aged 81, died 10 Jan. 1864, XA 34
Richard Hawkins, aged 59, died 28 Jan. 1864, XA 35
Frances Byrne, aged 50, died 25 May 1865, XA 34
Hugh Byrne, aged 58, died 6 Aug. 1866, XA 34.
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