Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-house
Dublin South City, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dublin South City
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU018-020820-
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The National Monuments Service's description
17th-century mass-house located in Bridge Street the precise location of which has not been identified. According to Donnelly (1904, 4-5); 'The first official document, which gives us a list of the actual places in which Mass was accustomed to be offered in the reign of James I., is a Government list of the Catholic Clergy in 1618. The list is a very incomplete one, but it certifies a few of the private houses that served as temporary chapels. "The Places" it says, " of most public note, whereunto the priests resort for Mass in Dublin, are : — "A back room of Mr. Plunkett, in Bridge street"
Lennon (2008, 23) recorded that there was a Mass-house on Bridge St. Upper W., probably in Fitzsimon’s Tower. Mass house c. 1610 (Gilbert 1854, Vol. 1, 262)
Donnelly, N. 1904 Roman Catholics: state and condition of Roman Catholic chapels in Dublin, both secular and regular AD 1749. Dublin.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 July 2023
References
Lennon, C. 2008 Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 19: Dublin, Part II, 1610 to 1756. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.
Gilbert, J.T. 1854-9 (Reprint 1978) A history of the city of Dublin, 3 vols. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.