High Altar Cashel
Date: 1891
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: altar
Description: 'built entirely of marble, erected at a cost of nearly 800-0-0. A gift of Mr. Michael Ryan, a merchant of Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
The main body of the work is of sicilian marble, all the carved portions, including the frontal and tabernacle, being of pure statuary'.
'Antependium features a 'Last Supper', in lieu of the original design, a 'Pietà '. The work most creditably carried out by P. J. Neill and Co. of Great Brunswick St from designs of W. G. Doolin, MA, Architect. The entire Church has lately been renovated and redecorated, also marble altar rail' ('The Irish Builder', 1 January 1891, p. 13, illustrated p. 5).
Objects
Related works High Altar
The article in the 'Irish Builder' of 1891 from which the reference to the High Altar Cashel is taken may be a later description of the High Altar by Earley and Company
Sources
The Irish Builder, 1891 formerly The Dublin Builder
1891
1 January 1891, p. 9, illustrated p. 5
Citing this record
'High Altar Cashel', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1216305691, accessed 07 Dec 2021]
