James Joseph McCarthy was an Irish

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

known for his design of ecclesiastical buildings. McCarthy was born in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

, Ireland on 6 January 1817. His parents were from County Kerry. He was educated by the Christian Brothers in Richmond St., and went on to study architecture at the Royal Dublin Society School. He was a follower of the style of the architect

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and

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. He designed religious many buildings to include convents and 80 churches and

cathedrals A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ...

. McCarthy served as Professor of Ecclesiastical Architecture at

All Hallows College All Hallows College was a college of higher education in Dublin. It was founded in 1842 and was run by the Vincentians from 1892 until 2016. On 23 May 2014, it was announced that it was closing because of declining student enrollment. The sale ...

, Dublin. He was also appointed Professor of Architecture at the

Catholic University of Ireland The Catholic University of Ireland (CUI; ) was a private Catholic Church, Catholic university in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1851 following the Synod of Thurles in 1850, and in response to the Queen's University of Ireland and its assoc ...

and at the

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. McCarthy was a friend of Dr.

Bartholomew Woodlock Bartholomew Woodlock (30 March 1819 – 13 December 1902) was an Irish Catholic prelate, philosopher and educator who established the Catholic University School, Dublin and founded the Society of St Vincent de Paul in Ireland. He was the second ...

, who had been rector of both All Hallows' and the Catholic University, and he helped Woodlock to found the Irish Ecclesiological Society in 1849. He was also a close friend of

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and was a member of the Young Irelanders. He died in 1882 and is interred in

Glasnevin Glasnevin (, also known as ''Glas Naedhe'', meaning "stream of O'Naeidhe" after a local stream and an ancient chieftain) is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the River Tolka. While primarily residential, Glasnevin is also home to ...

Cemetery.

Buildings

J.J McCarthy completed over fifty commissions for churches, monasteries, convents and cathedrals. *

Cathedral of the Assumption, Thurles The Cathedral of the Assumption is the mother church of the Ecclesiastical province, Metropolitan Province of Cashel and the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly in Thurles, County Tipperary in Republic of Irelan ...

, County Tipperary *St. Brendan's, Ardfert, County Kerry * Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,

Ballingarry, County Limerick Ballingarry () is a village in County Limerick, Ireland. It is located near the village of Granagh and between the towns of Rathkeale and Kilmallock on the R518 road. Ballingarry lies in a civil parish of the same name, and within the ecclesia ...

* St. Kevins, Glendalough * St. James's Church, Killorglin, County Kerry * St. Joseph's, Carrickmacross, Monaghan *

St Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan St Macartan's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located in the townland of Latlurcan, Monaghan town in the ecclesiastical parish of Monaghan and Rackwallace. It was ...

* St. Mary's Church, Dingle, County Kerry * St. Mary's Parish Church, Maynooth, County KildareLadychapel Maynooth 150 years
www.kildare.ie * St. Mary's Church, Rathkeale, County Limerick. * St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh * St. Peter and Paul Church, Kilmallock, County Limerick, * Mortuary Chapel, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin *

Killarney Franciscan Friary Killarney Franciscan Friary is a Christian monasticism, monastic establishment in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. The Franciscans, Franciscan community in Killarney was established in 1860, when Franciscan friars transferred from Gorey, County W ...

, County Kerry * Capuchian Franciscan Church, Church Street, DublinCapuchian Franciscan Church
Dublin. * Holy Trinity Church, Cookstown. County Tyrone * College Chapel, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, County Kildare * College Chapel,

Clonliffe College Holy Cross College (also known as Clonliffe College), located on Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, was founded in 1854 as the Catholic diocesan seminary for Dublin by Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin (later created, in 1866, a cardinal). History ...

, Dublin * Ladychapel Church, Maynooth, County Kildare *

St. Michael's Church, Ballinasloe St. Michael's Church ( Irish: ''Eaglais Naomh Mícheál'') is a large-scale Roman Catholic church built of limestone located on the south end of Saint Michael's Square, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. It was designed by J.J. McCarthy in 18 ...

County Galway County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 ...

* St Patrick's church , Mayobridge * St Patricks church Dungannon, Tyrone * St. Saviour’s Dominican Church, Dublin (1861) * St. Saviour's Dominican Church, Limerick (1870)

References

External links

Entry at the Irish Architectural Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:McCarthy, James Joseph 1817 births 1882 deaths Irish ecclesiastical architects 19th-century Irish architects Architects from Dublin (city)