Wicklow Catholic Parish
Location: County Wicklow, Ireland
"Wicklow is an old and historic parish tracing its origins right back to the time of St. Patrick. The Celtic name of the district was Kilmantan, or the Church of Mantan, who was an attendant of St. Patrick." [1]
- The old church was situated in the cemetery on Church Hill but no remains of it now survive.
- During the Penal Days the Catholics of Wicklow worshipped in little chapels in Monkton Row and Melancholy Lane
- In 1641, the chapel in Melancholy Lane was raided by the notorious Charles Coote, its priest Fr. O’Byrne was murdered along with his Congregation.
- Archdeacon Andrew O’Toole Parish Priest (1788-99), built a permanent church in 1797, sited opposite the present church. Today it operates as a Youth Centre and is no longer in the ownership of the parish.
- Fr. O’Toole was residing at Cronroe, Ashford, returning there on the night of 23rd of August, 1799. he was set upon and strangled in the hollow of Tighe’s Avenue. [2]
- The Parish of Wicklow has at present an area of 6.300 acres and is comprised of more than 30 town lands. In 1846 Ashford and Glenealy became a new parish and V. Rev. T O’Carroll DD who had been a curate in Wicklow was appointed first Parish Priest of the Parish of Ashford.
- William Cavanagh (1704-17)
- Stephen Cavanagh (1747 – )
- Andrew O’Toole Parish Priest (1788-99)
- John Canon Meagher (1799-1811)
- Michael Canon Maguire (1811-26)
- John Grant, Parish Priest (1826-63)
- Patrick O’ Doherty (1864-76)
- William Canon Dillon PP (1880-94) - "Rev. Mr. Dillon, senior curate of Kingstown, will succeed the Very Rev. Canon Harrold in the parish of Wicklow." [3]
- Thomas Carbery Parish Priest (1899-1906)
- John Canon Staples PP (1906-23)
- Michael Canon Hoey PP Wicklow (1923-49)
St. Joseph’s Church Rathnew
- St. Joseph’s Church Rathnew was completed in 1882 by Canon William Dillon, Parish Priest of Wicklow.
Patrick Lavelle appointed in 1941 as Rathnew’s first resident curate.
Sources
- ↑ https://www.wicklowparish.ie/about-the-parish/parish-history/
- ↑ Catholics and Catholicism in the Eighteenth-Century Press Archivium Hibernicum Vol. 27 (1964), pp. 305-350 (46 pages) Published by: Catholic Historical Society of Ireland https://www.jstor.org/stable/25487375
- ↑ The Monitor, Volume 23, Number 22, 11 March 1880
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