• Dalkey, Dublin

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.<...

• Dublin 8, Dublin

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....

• 94 Howth Road,, Howth, Dublin 13

Denomination : Church of Ireland
This is a functioning Church of Ireland Church.
Minister: Rev. Kevin Brew


The first church on the site was founded by Sigtrygg, King of Dublin, around 1042. But when, around 1235, the old church was amalgamated with the church on Ireland's Eye, a new church was founded by Luke, Archbishop of Dublin, and it was granted land by Sir Almeric St. Lawrence. Little remains of either of these two churches, and much of the present church is scarcely earlier than the late 14th or early 15th century.

While the church of 1235 was probably a long single-aisled church, the present church has two aisles, the southern one being the longer, and each aisle had a gable roof. some time later, probably during the course of the 15th century, the arches dividing the aisles were repaired and the twin-gable roof given up in favour of one single, but taller gable, and for this purpose the eastern and western gables were raised.

It was possibly at this period that the porch and south doorway were added. The tall arch in the west gable was added and the bell-cot raised above it late in the 16th century when the east window in the north aisle was also inserted....

• 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....

• Corn Market St (Near High St.), Dublin 2, Dublin

The church was founded by the Anglo-Normans and dedicated to the Norman saint, St Audoen o Rouen. It was one of a group of Guild Chapels, and one of the leading churches in Dublin in its day. Public announcements, such as the Pronouncements of Papal Bulls, were made here, and public penances performed.

The west doorway probably dates to around 1200, but the lower portion of the tower above it is largely 17th century in date. The present church consists only of the nave of the original church dating to the first half of the 13th century; new windows were inserted into it in the 15th century.

The original chancel is now roofless. In 1431 a chapel was built and dedicated to St. Ann. About twenty years later sir Roland Fitzeustace, Baron of Portlester, built a chapel in the south side of the nave. The Portlester cenotaph, with effigies of himself and his wife, was later removed from this chapel to its present position in the porch beneath the tower.
On the north side there was also a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin....

• Dublin 1, Dublin

It was possibly St. Comgall of Bangor who founded the first monastery here. The present nave-and-chancel church may have been built or re-built as late as the 16th century, but it incorporates part of an earlier church. Attached to the south wall of the church are a number of unusual Early Christian decorated slabs.

Near the south-west end of the church is the stump of a Round Tower. Remains of the old monastic stone wall surround the graveyard.

In a laneway leading down from the graveyard to the Old Connaught road is a base holding a small (15th century) cross bearing a Crucifixion on each face, on e in high and the other in low relief....

• Werburgh Street, Dublin 8, Dublin

St Werburgh's Church was built in the 12th Century and it was called after the King of Merica's daughter. A rebuliding of the church was carried out after a fire in the 18th century.

Denomination: Church of Ireland.

Morning Service on Sunday's at 10am

Admission into the church is free.
Donations are welcome....

• Dublin 1, Dublin

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....

• Dublin 1, Dublin

Founded by St. Doulagh, who lived around 600. The old church is entered through that part of the church now used for Divine Service which was built in 1864. The east end of the church, dating from the mid-12th century, is vaulted, above which is an attic room whose walls also serve to prevent the steep-pitched stone roof from caving inwards.

The remainder of the church is of 15th century date. At its centre is a room called 'The Hermit's Cell' which is reputed to be the burial place of the founder, and it may contain parts of an earlier cell. Above this a square tower rises in stages.

One of the floors connects with the croft or attic above the east end, and above this room, called 'The Bishop's Room', is the belfry.

In a field about 100 yards to the north-east of the church is a well, covered by an octagonal building (13th century); according to tradition its interior walls were decorated with pictures....

• Newcastle, Blessington, Dublin

A mote-and-bailey can be seen near the gate of the fifteenth-century St Finian's Church, which is of the nave and chancel type with a three-storey fortified tower. The tower was where the priest used to live.Its fine tracery east window, is English in design and is one of the best of its kind in the country.

The church is still used for worship. This is a Roman Catholic Church

A thatched cottage in the village, now a public house, is at least two hundred years old.
Close-by is Baldonnel (now casement) military aerodrome, where the German fliers kohl and Von Huenfeld, with Irish airman James Fitzmaurice, took off on the first successful east-west Atlantic flight in 1932....