Martin Day was an Irish architect and builder active in early to mid-nineteenth-century

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, in the southeast of Ireland. He was related to architects John Day and William Day, both of County Wexford, and connected with Richard Purcell. He was notable in designing several Church of Ireland churches for the

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between around 1822 and 1849. He assisted Daniel Robertson at Ballinkeele, Johnstown Castle, Bloomfield and

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. He designed without collaboration other country houses of less importance.''See also'' David Rowe & Eithne Scallan, ''Houses of Wexford'' (Ballinakella Press, 2004), no.484

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