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Church of Our Lady & St David
The Roman Catholic Parish Church is also dedicated to Our
Lady and St David. The main body of the church dates from 1827.
The 60 metre spire was added in 1858. Most recent renovations,
carried out in 1985, incorporated the directives of the 2nd
Vatican Council, by removing the high altar, side altars, altar
rails, Pulpit, and beautiful Mosaic Floor. The new Blessed Sacrament
Altar, is a circle, with the Tabernacle as its pivotal point,
denoting Christ as the Centre of the Universe. A new church
dedicated to the Irish Martyrs was blessed and opened in Ballycane,
on the East side of the town in 1997. One of the martyrs to
whom the church is dedicated is a seventeenth century Naas Dominican
Friar Fr Peter Higgins, who was executed in Dublin on 23 March
1642.
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