I lived close to one of the entrances to this church and did not know that it is St Paul Of The Cross Church as everyone that I know referred to it as Mount Argus.
This series of photographs date from 2016 and there has been a lot of [re]development activity since then. Early in 2019 the Marlet Property Group sold the monastery building for much more than the €3.5 million guide price. There was planning permission in place to convert the 19th century monastery into 32 duplexes and apartments.
Mount Argus was the official home of Saint Charles of Mount Argus who was a well known Passionist priest in 19th-century Ireland, mentioned as a miracle worker in the book Ulysses, Circe chapter. It also has long-established links with the Garda Síochána and it was officially the church of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. The first Rector of Mount Argus was Fr. Paul Mary Pakenham who was the son of the Earl of Longford and nephew of Kitty Pakenham (Duchess of Wellington). His first mass took place in a house at the time on 15 August 1856. Irish architect J.J. McCarthy was commissioned to design the new monastery.
