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QUICK VISIT TO ST MARY’S CHURCH

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JAMES STREET LAGANVOOREN DROGHEDA

MY OCTOBER 2023 VISIT TO DROGHEDA

I must admit that until today I had never heard of Lagavooren.

Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, built by architect P. J. Dodd, closely resembles the design of Saint Peter’s Parish Church across the river to its north-west. It is a fine example of a late-Victorian interpretation of the French Gothic style. Elaborate carved detailing and an imposing rose window create an impressive and eye-catching north façade and the church is a focal point within an area composed largely of small residential structures. Fine detailing, tiling, painted decoration and stained glass by Lobin and Mayer add artistic interest.

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SOME OLD IMAGES OF ST PETERS CHURCHYARD IN DROGHEDA

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PHOTOGRAPHED 20212 BY WILLIAM MURPHY

MY OCTOBER 2023 VISIT TO DROGHEDA

It rained during my visit and upon becoming wet some of the flat table like gravestones became black.

This week I realised that I had not visited Drogheda since 2012 so I decided that it might be a good to get the train to the town and devote a few hours to photographing some of the local churches however I got distracted and did have the time to visit St Pete’s Church Of Ireland churchyard. However, I am planning to visit again later this month or sometime in November [2023]

Within the churchyard of St. Peter’s can be found many interesting and varied funerary monuments. Of these, perhaps the most interesting and visited is a “cadaver stone” taken from the tomb of Sir Edmond Goldyng and his wife Elizabeth Fleming. It is built into the churchyard wall, east of the present building and shows two cadavers enclosed in shrouds which have been partially opened to show the remains of the occupants of the tomb.

Helen M. Roe in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities, 1969 estimates that a date for the tomb would seem to fall within the first quarter of the 16th century. This type of tombstone is part of a fashion widespread in Europe, although relatively rare in Ireland, which explored bodily decomposition and human mortality. This reflected a preoccupation with death arising from the great plague of 1347 to 1350, and subsequent epidemics.

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WINDY ARBOUR GROTTO FEATURING FOUR STATUES

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MARIAN STATUE AT FARRANBOLEY PARK IN DUNDRUM

This is within the Parish of St Columbanus, St Gall and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Windy Arbour Grotto is a wayside shrine in Dublin and it is located near Glasson Court Park and Windy Arbour Village. It consists of a triangular park at one end of South Gall Gardens.

Windy Arbour is surrounded by several housing estates, including St Columbanus’ Road. At the centre of Windy Arbour is the smaller and much older town-land of Farrenboley, which appears on maps dating from the 18th century.

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MOUNT JEROME CEMETERY

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13 OCTOBER 2023

Today I had to visit the Harold’s Cross area of Dublin so I took the opportunity to visit Mount Jerome Cemetery where two of my Grandparents are buried even though they were Catholics and were involved in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Mount Jerome Cemetery & Crematorium is situated in Harold’s Cross on the south side of Dublin, Ireland. Since its foundation in 1836, it has witnessed over 300,000 burials. Originally an exclusively Protestant cemetery, Roman Catholics have also been buried there since the 1920s.

The cemetery is also known for its beautiful Victorian architecture, including the Victorian Chapel, which is still used for funeral services today.

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SAINT BRIGID’S CHURCH OF IRELAND CHURCH

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CASTLEKNOCK VILLAGE

Detached Church of Ireland church, built 1806, with three-stage tower to west gable. Flanking side aisles added c.1860, comprising three-bay side elevations with gabled terminating bays to east forming transepts. Stained glass window dedicated to Saint Hubert by Harry Clarke.

In May 1177, Henry II and Hugh de Lacy granted 12,001 acres of land in Castleknock to Hugh Tyrell, first Baron of Castleknock. A copy of the charter of the grant in Latin was discovered in 1933 by Eric St. John Brooks in the London Public Records Office. In 1185, Richard Tyrell, son of Hugh Tyrell, gave a grant to the Benedictine monks from the Abbey of Little Malvern in Worcestershire to endow a religious house in Castleknock in honour of St. Brigid.

They founded a monastery beside St. Brigid’s Well called the Abbey of St. Brigid in Castleknock and it was a dependent priory of Little Malvern. The lands and priory were transferred to the ownership of St. Mary’s Abbey in 1486 and on the dissolution of the monasteries after Henry VIII broke with Rome, it became the property of the Luttrell family. The first church was built here in 1609 on the site of the monastery of St. Brigid. In 1803, the foundation stone was laid by Hans Hamilton for the re-building of St. Brigid’s, the present day Castleknock parish church.

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