Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
College
Garristown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garristown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU003-011008-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a building in Garristown known in the 17th-century as the 'College of Garristown' has not been identified. In 1630, the Visitation of Dublin Diocese by the Protestant Archbishop, Dr. Bulkeley recorded that 'the church [DU003-011001-] of Garestown is ruinous. There is in the towne of Garestowne a great voyde howse, of nine couples [rafters] longe covered with strawe whereunto the parishioners doe resort to heare Mass. John Mooney clarke is vicar' (Ronan 1941, 68; Walsh 1888, 215). This large thatched house described in 1630 may be the same building described in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin which stated that in Garristown on the lands of Elizabeth Talbot of Malahide, an English Papist there stood; 'one stone house Thatcht comonly called the Colledge of Garestowne' (Simington 1945, 17).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 March 2023
References
Ronan, M.V. 1941 Archbishop Bulkeley's Visitation of Dublin, 1630. Archivium Hibernicum 8, 56-98.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: county of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Walsh, Rev. R. 1888a Fingal and its churches. Dublin. William McGee.