to landed gentry in the west of Ireland and to the Church. In 1735, he was admitted as a freeman of the city of Dublin. His earliest known work is the steeple, 103 ft in height, of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, which he designed and erected in 1749.

He also built St Patrick's Hospital (1749-57), which was founded in 1747 with money bequeathed by Jonathan Swift following his