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CHURCH LANE IN RATHFARNHAM VILLAGE

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NOVEMBER 2023

In Rathfarnham, the general area, there were several paper mills, one at the bottom of Church Lane, which ran from the village of Rathfarnham, down to the river Dodder, in front of Woodview cottages. It was first established by William Lake of Rathfarnham, in 1719 but later taken by over by William and Thomas Slater.

Church Lane is a street in the village of Rathfarnham, in South Dublin, Ireland. It is a short lane off of Main Street, and is home to a number of businesses but it is dominated by the Church Of Ireland parish church.

History records a timber parish Church in Rathfarnham in 1212 AD. Later a stone Church was built on the site and the ruins remain today, 40 metres north of the present Church. In 1779/80 a decision was made to build a new Church as the congregation grew in numbers.

ST JAMES’ CHURCH

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NOW THE PEARSE LYONS DISTILLERY AND VISITOR CENTRE

I attended an event, relating to AI, which was organised by Virgin Media and as a result I had an opportunity to photograph some of the old graveyard at St. James’ Church but I only had a very small camera [Sony RX0]. Note: The date and time settings were out by a year so be aware that I visited in 2023 not in 2022.

St. James’ Church is a former Church of Ireland church in James’s Street, Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1707, the corresponding parish, which was separated from that of nearby St. Catherine’s, was established in 1710. There had been a shrine dedicated to St. James at nearby St. James’s Gate, a stopping-off point for pilgrims, since medieval times. It has been proposed that the current church is near to the site of a church to St. James of Compostella which is first referred to in the mid-13th century.

The existing church building dates from 1859 and was designed by Joseph Welland (1798–1860). It is the burial place of the Rev. John Ellis, for 34 years vicar of this parish, and of William Ellis, governor of Patna, India, who was killed during a war there in 1763.

In 2014, the church was bought by Pearse Lyons and converted into a distillery and visitor centre.

Thomas Pearse Lyons (3 August 1944 – 8 March 2018) was an Irish businessman and the founder and President of Kentucky-based Alltech Inc., an American animal health and nutrition company that is centred on innovation, research and development. Lyons was considered an “entrepreneur, salesman, marketer and scientist all rolled into one”, and was widely regarded in the agribusiness sector as an innovator and industry leader.

Although the present church only dates to the 18th century, there are records of burials as early as 1495 and it is believed that the cemetery may have been in use as early as the 13th century. Back in 2019 I was unable to explore the cemetery as it was overgrown and not accessible to the public. It is owned by the Dublin city council, and community efforts are underway to revive the tradition of annual cleaning and decoration.

In the centre of the cemetery is the monument of Sir Theobald Butler (1650-1720), of the Butlers of Ballyline, a prominent barrister who served as Solicitor General for Ireland and assisted in framing the articles of the Treaty of Limerick in 1691, and who advocated the Roman Catholic cause before Parliament. His monument has a Latin epitaph stating that it was erected by his eldest son “to the best of fathers.” Since Butler was a Catholic, it is noteworthy that the Church of Ireland made no objection to his being buried in St. James’. The monument was restored by Colonel Augustus Butler D.L. of County Clare, his descendant in the fourth generation, in 1876.

Sir Mark Rainsford, Mayor of Dublin and owner of the brewery which was sold to Arthur Guinness, was buried in St James in 1709. Also buried here is Sergeant-Major John Lucas, VC, who died 4 March 1892 and Sir William Haldane-Porter founder of the UK Immigration Service, who died in 1944.

Across the road from the church, in the middle of the road, is the Fountain, an obelisk with 4 sundials with a drinking fountain at its base, built in 1790 by the Duke of Rutland, the Lord Lieutenant

CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL 7 JUNE 2023

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WINETAVERN STREET – ST MICHAELS HILL

My Grandmother always referred to this as St. Michaels Hill but my father referred to it as Winetavern Street and until recently I also referred to it as Winetavern street because that was what on any map that I had seen.

However, about three years ago, I noticed a street sign under the arch at Christ Church Cathedral indicating that it is St. Michael’s Hill.

After some research I discovered that the left hand side [East] of the street heading towards the river is St. Michael’s Hill while the other side of the street is Winetavern Street. To make things even more complicated St. Michael’s Lane was originally Christchurch Lane.

In the 17th century, taverns on Winetavern Street included the Whitehorse the Golden Lion and the King’s Head and all are long gone.

Christ Church Cathedral, more formally The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, is the cathedral of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and the cathedral of the ecclesiastical province of the United Provinces of Dublin and Cashel in the (Anglican) Church of Ireland. It is situated in Dublin, Ireland, and is the elder of the capital city’s two medieval cathedrals, the other being St Patrick’s Cathedral.

The cathedral was founded in the early 11th century under the Viking king Sitric Silkenbeard. It was rebuilt in stone in the late 12th century under the Norman potentate Strongbow, and considerably enlarged in the early 13th century, using Somerset stones and craftsmen. A partial collapse in the 16th century left it in poor shape and the building was extensively renovated and rebuilt in the late 19th century, giving it the form it has today, including the tower, flying buttresses, and distinctive covered footbridge.

DR. MARY HEARN PARK IS A REPURPOSED GRAVEYARD ON BOB AND JOAN’S WALK

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PHOTOGRAPHED IN MAY 2019 BUT PUBLISHED 24 MARCH 2023

The clock tower in some of the photographs is known as the four face liar as none of the clocks showed exactly the same time.

I was not happy with this session as I had a problem with some aggressive dogs [they were annoying rather than dangerous] so I left with the intention of returning the next day but forgot to do so. I was unable to visit in the following year because of travel restrictions and when I visited the city again in 2021 access was very limited as was my freedom to photograph.

There is a laneway named Bob And Joan’s Walk connecting the Kinlay House Hostel to Shandon Bells And Tower.

One of two public parks created on disused cemeteries in the Shandon area is known as the Dr Mary Hearn Park. It can be entered from Bob and Joan’s Walk at the south side of St Anne’s Church, Shandon. The park was named after the wife of Robert T. Hearn, rector of St Anne’s Cathedral from 1905 to 1939. A record of this graveyard dates back to 1722 but it was probably used as a burial ground as far back as the eighth or ninth century. Its last new burials were around the year 1900.

In 1985 the Church of Ireland handed over possession of the graveyard to the Lions Club in Cork to develop it as a memorial park. The graveyard continued to fall into disrepair however until the Church of Ireland handed it over to Cork City Council in 2006. While converting the cemetery to a public park, the City Council constructed new paths, new green areas, and repaired some gravestones. It was officially opened as the Dr Mary Hearn Park by Lord Mayor Michael O’Connell on 22 June 2011.

The Green Coat Hospital School was a charity school founded in 1716 to give an elementary education to poor children and to instruct them in the principles of Christianity as professed by the Church of Ireland. The Rev. Henry Maule was the driving force behind the establishment of the school. Forty children, twenty boys and twenty girls, attended the school which stood near Shandon. Statues of a boy and a girl stood over the gateway to the school. The statues were popularly known as ‘Bob’ and ‘Joan’. They are now kept in St Anne’s Church, Shandon. The path which ran down to the school was known as Bob and Joan Walk.

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