THE Church of Ireland has launched a website that will be of
interest to architects, historians, and students. Its
Representative Church Body Library, in Dublin (Dublin &
Glendalough), has several collections of architectural
drawings, the largest of which is a miscellaneous collection of
19th-century drawings of Church of Ireland churches and cathedrals.
Last year, it conducted a pilot scheme to digitise and catalogue
these drawings, and is now putting them all on line in alphabetical
order. There are some 1279 drawings of 229 churches, and many are
very fragile, but they want to make them freely available to
researchers, and anyone else who is interested. The first tranche -
the churches of Achonry, Ardagh, Armagh, Cashel, Clogher, Clonfert,
and Cloyne - can be seen online at www.archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org.