Career
He was as a student to John Bowden and became his assistant and is noted to have designed many churches and schools around Ireland. While working with John Bowden with the Board of First Fruits, he shared some of Bowden"s works. These include Saint James Church, Booterstown and Saint Stephen"s Church, Mount Street (The Pepper Canister), both of which Joseph Welland had to complete himself after Bowden"s death in 1821.