churches historical dublin

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...

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...

In the church of the Carmelite Fathers in Whitefriar Street lies the body of St Valentine, whose feast day on 14th February is now celebrated with cards, chocolates, tokens of love and sentiments not usually associated with the more chaste saints.

The body, which formerly lay in the cemetery of St Hippolytus in Rome, was presented to the Fathers in 1836 by Pope Gregory XVI.

The church itself, designed by George Papworth in 1825, stands on the site of the thirteenth-century chur...

This beautiful building dates back to the seventeenth century but its excellent state of repair is due to the refurbishment carried out by a Rev. Joseph Espine in the 1730's, and later alterations carried out in 1872 when the vicarage was bought back by the Swords Vestry....

The remains of a church built possibly in the 15th century. The eastern portion is probably the earliest; the western part, with its massive tower and belfry, was added later.

In the 13th century the site was attached to the church at Balrothery and was granted to the religious house at Kilbixy by the Archbishop of Dublin.
It was subsequently made tributary to Lusk. A castle stood formerly to the north of the church....

Denomination : Church of Ireland
This is a functioning Church of Ireland  Church.
Minister: Rev. Kevin Brew


The first church on the site was founded by Sigtrygg, King of Dublin, around 1042. But when, around 1235, the old church was amalgamated with the church on Ireland's Eye, a new church was founded by Luke, Archbishop of Dublin, and it was granted land by Sir Almeric St. Lawrence. Little remains of either of these two churches, and much of the presen...

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...

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'....

On the north-east corner of Parnell Square is the Abbey Presbyterian Church (1864), usually known as Findlater's Church after the wealthy merchant who paid for the building. Its graceful neo-Gothic spire is one of Dublin's landmarks....

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...