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Mary Immaculate, Refuge of Sinners is a Roman Catholic church in Rathmines, Dublin built in 1854 in the "Greek style". [2] The church was originally designed by Patrick Byrne and later extended by William Henry Byrne who added a portico and pediment.
Rathmines is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ráth Maonais, meaning "ringfort of Maonas"/"fort of Maonas".The name Maonas is perhaps derived from Maoghnes or the Norman name de Meones, after the de Meones family who settled in Dublin about 1280; Elrington Ball states that the earlier version of the name was Meonesrath, which supports the theory that it was named after the family. [5]
Rathmines and Rathgar is a former second-tier local government area within County Dublin. It was created as the Township of Rathmines in 1847. In 1862, its area was expanded and it became the Township of Rathmines and Rathgar. In 1899, it became an urban district. It was abolished in 1930, and its area absorbed into the city of Dublin.
A painting of Rathgar castle by Gabriel Beranger.. Rathgar in the Middle Ages was a farm belonging to the Convent of St Mary de Hogges, at present-day College Green. [3] At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Rathgar was granted to the Segrave family: they built Rathgar Castle, ownership of which subsequently passed to John Cusacke, who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1608.
The building ceased to be the local seat of government in 1930 when Rathmines was annexed by Dublin in accordance with the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930. [6] A convention of the Republican Congress was held in the building in September 1934, [14] [15] [16] and a convention of the National Corporate Party was held there in July 1936. [17]
Palmerston Park Old Rathmines Castle, Dublin from a 1789 illustration. It was situated adjacent to what today is the site of Palmerston Park. View of street called Palmerston Park Battle of Rathmines. Palmerston Park (Irish: Páirc Bhaile Phámar) is a public park and residential area in Dartry, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. [1]
Residents called a public meeting on 8 October 1973 in the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society, which formed the Belgrave Residents Association. The square was posted for sale in 1975. [ 6 ] The Dublin City Council acquired the square to develop into a local park on Sept 16, 1975, from the Dublin, Glendalough, and Kildare Diocesan Board of ...
In 1892 a new headquarters of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation was established. The building was consecrated by Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, who declared "Ireland is the only country in the world which cannot be charged with persecuting Jews". [3] The Terenure Hebrew Congregation was established at a meeting on 26 September 1936.