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St Mary's Church, on the opposite side of Dorset Street, is known as 'the Black Church' after the black calp stone of which it is built.
Dublin legend has it that if you go twice round the Black Church at midnight, the devil will appear....
In the church of the Carmelite Fathers in Whitefriar Street lies the body of St Valentine, whose feast day on 14th February is now celebrated with cards, chocolates, tokens of love and sentiments not usually associated with the more chaste saints.
The body, which formerly lay in the cemetery of St Hippolytus in Rome, was presented to the Fathers in 1836 by Pope Gregory XVI.
The church itself, designed by George Papworth in 1825, stands on the site of the thirteenth-century church occupied by the same Order before the Reformation.
The building also holds an interesting fifteenth-century oak carving of the Madonna and Child which is believed to have come from St Mary's Abbey....
- Mary Street, Dublin 1, Dublin
Saint Mary's Church in Mary Street (1697, by Thomas Burgh) is the only surviving seventeenth-century church in Dublin.
John Wesley preached his first sermon in Ireland here in 1747.
The building is now an arts centre.
On the other side of Capel Street, Little Mary Street leads to the colourful Dublin Corporation Fruit and Vegetable Market....
- Suffolk Street, Dublin 2, Dublin
St. Andrews Church was once the centre of a Church of Ireland parish. St. Andrews Parish is one of the oldest parishes in the city, dating back to the 11th century.
The present builidng was built in 1866, however, there has been a church on this site since 1665.
Saint Andrews was sold by the Church of Ireland in 1994, and its now the main Tourist Information Office for Dublin....
SORD COLUMBCILLE is the ancient name of this town, meaning the well of pure water of the dove of the Church. The "Dove" means St. Columba, (from "Colombe" a dove). His sanctity caused him to be called the "Dove of the Church" (from the Latin "Cella"). The well is the one which the Saint caused to be made, which can still be found, near this place, a well of pure water, used to this day.
St. Columba founded the town about 560 A.D. He left Ireland in 563 A.D. to go to Iona, so the town's earliest date could be soon after the Saint founded DURROW in 553.
The Church was designed by a Mr.Trench of Hayward, near Ballynakill, and the architect was Mr. William Farrell of Dublin. The cost of the Church was then £2200....
On the north-east corner of Parnell Square is the Abbey Presbyterian Church (1864), usually known as Findlater's Church after the wealthy merchant who paid for the building. Its graceful neo-Gothic spire is one of Dublin's landmarks....
A monastery was founded here by St MacCullin in early Christian times, and the name Lusk derives from the cave (Irish 'lusca') where MacCullin was buried after his death in 497 AD.
The unusual square sixteenth-century belfry incorporates a sixth century Round Tower with three later towers built to match, all attached to a nineteenth-century church which contains some fine mediaeval tombs. Now the Lusk Heritage Centre, the belfry houses an exhibition on the mediaeval churches of North County Dublin.
It also has a magnificent sixteenth-century effigy tomb.
In the nearby former church of St MaCullin is the Willie Monks Museum, whch portrays rural life in the locality between sixty and one hundred years ago....
- 57 Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Dublin
Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church stands on the site of a pre-Reformation Carmelite Priory (1539). Nothing remains of the older buildings. The foundation stone was laid in 1825. In 1856 and 1868 the church was considerably extended and enlarged. The architect, George Papworth (1781-1855) was also the designer of Dublin's Pro Cathedral.
St Valentine : The church contains the remains of St Valentine given by Pope Gregory XVI to Fr Spratt from the cemetery of St Hippolytus, Rome, in 1835. St Valentine's fame, together with the fact that his feast fell on February 14th seems to have accounted for his association with the old customs observed on that date.
They were springtime beliefs and traditions. There was a belief that the birds mated on February 14th, girls would choose their Valentine sweetheart on that day and later came the custom of sending greeting cards (Valentines) The crocus which flowers about this time, is St Valentine's Flower.
St Albert's Well Albert was a Sicilian (d 1306)....
A small treeless island 300 yards offshore from Coliemore harbour, where row-boats may be hired.
The island is uninhabited and its main interest is the early church dedicated to Saint Begnet near the landing place on the west shore. It has prominent antae and a massively lintelled doorway with slightly inclined jambs. The original roof was probably thatch or shingles, but medieval slates discovered in the course of excavation show that the church remained in use for some considerable time. The bell cote on the west gable is also a late addition.
Alterations were made to the interior of the building at the beginning of the nineteenth century when it was temporarily occupied by the workmen who constructed the Martello tower on the island.
On a weathered rock outside the church is an inscribed cross in a circle, a relic perhaps of the first monastery here, possibly in the sixth or seventh century.<...
This beautiful building dates back to the seventeenth century but its excellent state of repair is due to the refurbishment carried out by a Rev. Joseph Espine in the 1730's, and later alterations carried out in 1872 when the vicarage was bought back by the Swords Vestry....
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