PAIN

James (son of James Pain, builder and surveyor). b. Isle worth, Surrey about 1779; apprenticed to John Nash, the architect; partner with his brother George Richard Pain as architects and builders; James settled at Limerick and George at Cork as builders about 1817; they built the churches of Buttevant, Mid let on, and Car rig a line, the gaols at Limerick and Cork, Thomond bridge at Limerick, and Athlunkard bridge near Limerick 1839–43; they designed Mitch els town castle, near Cork, for the earl of Kingston; James was architect to the board of first-fruits for the province of Munster, with charge of the churches and glebe houses; George b. London 1793, d. 1838, bur. St. Mary Shandon ch. yard; James d. Limerick 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Limerick cathedral. Dictionary of architecture vi , Letter P , 6–7 (1881).