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Surname	Shanahan	Alternative Surname
First Name	Michael	Initial of Surname	S
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	c1770-95
Year of Death
Biographical Details	He is thought to have come from Cork and was taken up when young by the Earl Bishop of Derry, whom he may have met in 1768, when the latter was Bishop of Cloyne. Shanahan travelled on the Continent in the early 1770s with the bishop, acting as tutor to his son and making drawings of several sites, later engraved by Dall’Acqua in Vicenza, but apparently never published. In the 1780s he established a marble business in Cork, where he carried out orders for marble chimneypieces and other work. He is thought to have designed St Patrick’s Bridge and the city and county gaols, both in Cork. Literary References: Potterton 1975, 78