James Joseph McCarthy was an Irish architect famous for his design of ecclesiastical buildings. McCarthy was born in Dublin, 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 Pugin and Gothic Revival. McCarthy served as Professor of Ecclesiastical Architecture at All Hallows College, Dublin. He was also appointed Professor of Architecture at the Catholic University of Ireland and at the Royal Hibernian Academy. McCarthy was a friend of Dr. Bartholomew Woodlock, 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 Charles Gavan Duffy and was a member of the Young Irelanders. He died in 1882 and is interred in Glasnevin Cemetery. Buildings J.J McCarthy completed over fifty commissions for Churches, Monasteries, Convents and Cathedrals. Cathedral of the Assumption, Thurles, Co. Tipperary St. Brendan's, Ardfert, Co. Kerry Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Ballingarry, County Limerick St. Kevins, Glendalough St. James's Church, Killorglin, Co. Kerry St. Joseph's, Carrickmacross, Monaghan St Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan St. Mary's Church, Dingle, Co. Kerry St. Mary's Parish Church, Maynooth, Co. Kildare St. Mary's Church, Rathkeale, Co. Limerick. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh St. Peter and Paul Church, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, Mortuary Chapel, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin Capuchian Franciscan Church, Church Street, Dublin Holy Trinity Church, Cookstown College Chapel, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare College Chapel, Clonliffe College, Dublin Ladychapel Church, Maynooth, Co. Kildare St. Michael's Church, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway St Patrick's church , Mayobridge St Patricks church Dungannon, Tyrone St. Saviour’s Dominican Church, Dublin (1861) St. Saviour's Dominican Church, Limerick (1870) External links Entry at the Irish Architectural Archive References 1817 births 1882 deaths Irish ecclesiastical architects 19th-century Irish architects Architects from Dublin (city)