1846 – Queen’s Old Castle, Grand Parade, Cork
Architect: Henry Hill / S.F. Hynes / Chillingworth & Levie
William Fitzgibbon from Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, began a drapery store in Shandon street,
Samuel F. Hynes (1854 -1931)
Articled to William Aikins in Cork in 1869, serving a five-year pupilage, before later travelling on the Continent, He started in independent practice in Cork in 1875, and operated for over forty years, receiving the greater part of his commissions from the Catholic religious orders. He retired from practice in 1929 and died, unmarried, at the age of seventy-seven on 28 June 1931,
1861 – St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Cork
Architect: Kearns Deane
By popular local legend, the architect Kearns Deane gave his services free, although he was not a Roman Catholic.
1877 – Design for de Vesci Memorial, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
Architect: S.F. Hynes
The second placed entry in a competition for a memorial for Thomas, Third Viscount de Vesci.
1879 – Convent of Mercy Chapel, Bantry, Co. Cork
Architect: S.F. Hynes
The chapel was a later addition to the Romanesque Revival complex, and was designed by S.F.
1879 – Presentation Convent, Melbourne, Australia
Architect: S.F. Hynes
Designed by Cork architect Samuel F. Hynes, for the Archbishop of Melbourne. “The buildings are disposed around a court so as to be well ventilated and lighted.
1885 – St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork
Architect: Samuel F. Hynes
Designed for The Most Rev Dr. Delany as a Diocesan College attached to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross.
1899 – St. Patricks’s Church, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
Architect: S.F. Hynes
Designed in 1896-9 by the Cork based architect S.F. Hynes, St. Patrick’s is a simple late Gothic revival church with a transept reserved for the nuns of the adjacent convent.
1925 – Church of the Immaculate Conception, Bruree, Co. Limerick
Architect: S.F. Hynes
Built using limestone from nearby Tankardstown. Designed by Cork architect S.F. Hynes, construction started in 1922 and the church was dedicated in 1925.
