churches historical 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 year...

The foundation of the first monastery is attributed to St. Cronan, otherwise called Mo-Chua, who lived possibly in the 6th century. The monastery is first mentioned in 776.
It was plundered by the Vikings in 832. In 1076 the southern half of Ireland demanded the expulsion of O'Ronain from the abbacy as it was claimed that he held it against the rightful abbot.

This probably means that the monastery had fallen into lay hands by that time. The most important remnant of the monaste...

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....

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 fr...

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 t...

Directly to the south of the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Cemetery may be entered from Finglas Road, off Phibsborough Road. Here lie many famous Irish men and women of the past 150 years - Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, Eamon de Valera, Maud Gonne, Roger Casement, and the rivals of the Civil War now united in death. 'All these here once walked round Dublin', reflects Leopold Bloom in Ulysses, 'Faithful departed'....

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....

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 orig...

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...

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 C...