About Pugin > Irish buildings
We present here a selection of Pugin's Irish buildings.
County Waterford
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Waterford
Former Presentation Convent, Slievekeale Road. Designed 1841, constructed 1842-63. Some fittings and furnishings after 1852 by Edward Welby Pugin. Traditional monastic layout around a quadrangular cloister. Some minor modifications but essentially intact. Building now in private ownership and will be conserved. Site not accessible.
County Wexford
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Barntown
St Alphonsus' Church, on the N25 a few km west of the N25/N11 roundabout. Designed c.1844, constructed 1844-48. Aisled church with western double bellcote, south porch and sacristy at the east end of the north side. Structurally unaltered. Open daily.
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Bree
Church of the Assumption. Designed 1838, constructed 1838-39. Two-compartment church with apsidal chancel, west porch and western bellcote. Structurally unaltered. Open daily.
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Enniscorthy
St Aidan's Cathedral. Designed 1843, constructed 1843-73. Aisled clerestoried cruciform building with crossing tower and spire. Structurally unaltered. Open daily.
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Gorey
St Michael's Church, St Michael's Road. Designed 1839, constructed 1839-43. Large aisled clerestoried cruciform church with apsidal chancel and crossing tower, an intended spire not built. Polygonal baptistery by J.J. McCarthy constructed off the south aisle west end in 1900-01. Structurally intact. Open daily.
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Ramsgrange
St James' Church. Designed 1838, constructed 1838-43, the tower in 1870. Large single compartment church with north and south porches, two-storey sacristy at the east end of the north side, later two-storey structure at the east end of the south side, and a central western tower, lacking its intended spire and with a non-Pugin capping. Structurally intact. Open daily.
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Tagoat
St Mary's Church. Designed 1843, constructed 1843-48. Large aisled clerestoried church with transepts, separately expressed chancel, eastern chapels, a south porch and a - presumably - earlier tower abutting the sacristy north wall. Structurally unaltered. Open daily.
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Wexford
St Peter's College Chapel, access off Summerhill Road. Designed 1838, constructed 1838-41. Large single compartment chapel with western triple bellcote. Structurally unaltered. Not open to the public.