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In Howth village is St. Mary’s Church and graveyard

In Howth village is St. Mary’s Church and graveyard. The earliest church was built by Sitric, King of Dublin, in 1042. It was replaced around 1235 by a parish church, and then, in the second, half of the 14th century, the present church was built. The building was modified in the 15th and 16th centuries, when the gables were raised, a bell-cote was built and a new porch and south door were added. The St. Lawrences of nearby Howth Castle also modified the east end to act as a private chapel; inside bis the tomb of Christopher St. Lawrence, 13th Lord Howth, who died in 1462, and his wife, Anna Plunkett of Ratoath.

16 Jan 2012 20:09

Celtic Crosses

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Papal Cross In Phoenix Park - Dublin

The Papal Cross is a simple large white cross that was erected near the edge of the Fifteen Acres for the Papal visit of Pope John Paul II on the 29th September 1979. On this day, before travelling to Drogheda, Co. Louth, Pope John Paul II delivered an open-air sermon to more than 1.25 million people.

The Papal Cross was designed by the Irish firm of Scott, Tallon Walker Architects and constructed by John Sisk & Sons. It stands 116 feet high and is made of steel girders. After several attempts to erect the cross, it was eventually put in place on the 14th September, which is also the feast day of the Exaltation of the Cross.

16 Jan 2012 19:56

Tully Church and the Crosses situated in Laughanstown (on Lehaunstown road )

Tully church and the crosses situated in Laughanstown (on Lehaunstown road ) have had an association with St Bridget who died in 523 AD.

The names are a bit confusing and I don't know if there are in fact two separate locations Laughanstown and Lehaunstown or if there is one location with one name but different spellings (the sign at the Luas station is "Laughanstown"). Also the country lane is referred to as Lehaunstown Lane in some documents or Lehaunstown Road on some maps.

Located in the field across the road from the church is a tall slender cross believed to be of the 12th/13th century. The east face of the cross bears an ecclesiastic figure that looks like a bishop but some claim that it may be a female figure and believe it to be of St Bridget, but due to weathering it is impossible to tell. One face bears a head/mask which is badly weathered. Access is over a wooden stile across from the church and there is no signs indicating that it is there and I only discovered because I saw a woman with five or six dogs entering the field (she was a professional dog-walker).

The date of construction of the church at Tully is not known, but it may be from the ninth century or earlier and is thought to be of Viking origin. The unusually larger chancel was added to the nave during the early 13th century and has a rounded arch and two rounded headed east windows.

At the side of the road, just before the church, there is the small plain ringed cross. This cross was saved from destruction by James Grehan in the later part of the nineteenth century. The road next to the cross was being lowered and James Grehan had a small wall built and the cross placed upon it at it's original height.

16 Jan 2012 19:51

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The Congress Column - Brussels [above]

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St. Mary’s Church and graveyard.

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own

Glasnevin Cemetery, officially known as Prospect Cemetery, is the largest nondenominational cemetery in Ireland. It first opened in 1832 and is located in Glasnevin, Dublin.

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant cemeteries. This situation continued until an incident at a funeral held at St. Kevin's Cemetery in 1825 , provoked public outcry when a Protestant sexton reprimanded a Catholic priest for proceeding to perform a limited version of a funeral mass.

The outcry prompted Daniel O'Connell, champion of Catholic rights, to launch a campaign and prepare a legal opinion proving that there was actually no law passed forbidding praying for a dead Catholic in a graveyard. O'Connell pushed for the opening of a burial ground in which both Irish Catholics and Protestants could give their dead dignified burial.

The cemetery is located in Glasnevin, Dublin, in two parts. The main part, with its trademark high walls and watchtowers, is located on one side of the road from Finglas to the city centre, while the other part, "St. Paul's," is located across the road and beyond a green space, between two railway lines.

Glasnevin Cemetery contains many historically interesting monuments as well as the graves of many of Ireland's most prominent national figures — Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell as well as Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Maude Gonne, Kevin Barry, Sir Roger Casement, Constance Markiewicz, Brendan Behan, Seán MacBride, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Christy Brown, Frank Duff, Luke Kelly of the Dubliners. Boyzone singer Stephen Gately was cremated at Glasnevin Crematorium, which is located within the cemetary grounds, on October 17th, 2009.

The cemetery also offers a view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years: from the austere, simple, high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate Celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late twentieth century. Glasnevin Cemetery has grown from its original nine to over 120 acres.

The high wall with watch-towers surrounding the main part of the cemetery was built to deter bodysnatchers, who were active in Dublin in the 18th and early 19th century. The watchmen also had a pack of blood-hounds who roamed the cemetery at night. Prime Minister, Robert Peel, when questioned in Parliament on the activities of the body-snatchers, admitted that it was, indeed, a "grave matter".

Glasnevin is one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground and contains an area called the Angels Plot.

19 Jan 2012 01:39

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16 Jan 2012 23:36

St. Mary’s Church and Graveyard

St. Mary’s Church and Graveyard - Howth

16 Jan 2012 00:05

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CHURCH ON BIRD AVENUE - DUBLIN

Trinity Presbyterian Church - Cork

The congregation was founded by mainly Scottish settlers in Cork in the 1830s who were unhappy with the unorthodox teaching of the 'Old Presbyterian Church' in Princes St (hence the name 'Trinity'). After meeting in rooms in Tuckey Street and in the Baptist Church (then in Marlboro Street); a building was erected in Queen Street (now Father Matthew Street). The present Gothic-style building at Summerhill North dates from 1861 and has three distinctive stained glass windows to represent the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Unusually for Presbyterian buildings, there is a choir gallery at the back of the church where there is an organ built by the Cork firm of Megahy in the 1900s. The Gothic-style small building at the foot of the hill was the Carmichael School (named after a prominent benefactor) and is now leased to a dentists' practice. A larger school building in the grounds continued as Summerhill National School until the 1960s.

16 Jan 2012 03:05

Church Bell - Kerry

This was towards the back of an old church located near Waterville in Kerry (Ireland)

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