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September 07, 2006

AUTUMN SCHEDULE OF LOCAL HISTORY TALKS IN KILDARE


Cill Dara Historical Society

Kildare Town’s Local History Group

2006 Series of Talks

in


The Education Centre Kildare
Friary Road, Kildare Town


(Old Parochial House)


Talks Begin at 8 p.m. (unless stated)


ALL ARE WELCOME


Further Information: 086 1686236


 

Wednesday 4th October – 1918, THE SPANISH FLU & Co. KILDARE – with RONNIE

KINNANE

Thursday 12th October – In Association with The County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups

‘COMMANDANT JAMES O’NEILL, IRISH CITIZEN ARMY (1917 – 1922) and Quartermaster, GPO, Easter 1916’ – with JOHN COLGAN

Wednesday 1st November – RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT GREY ABBEY – with

EMER DENNEHY – AT 8.30 p.m.

Wednesday 6th December – LILYWHITES ON ICE, POLAR EXPLORATIONS & THE

KILDARE CONNECTIONS – with KEVIN KENNY


Bring along a friend for an enjoyable night with your Local History Group


A fascinating addition to the Local History Schedule of Talks has just been announced for Thursday 12 October 2006 in association with The County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups

‘COMMANDANT JAMES O’NEILL, IRISH CITIZEN ARMY (1917 – 1922) and Quartermaster, GPO, Easter 1916’ – with JOHN COLGAN


Posted by mariocorrigan at 12:42 PM

September 05, 2006

AN TOSTAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME 1953 - CHAPTER 21

THE MODERN PARISH
 
“The normal units of church administration are dioceses and parishes. This system developed gradually during the first centuries of Christianity according as the number of the faithful increased in each country. The system accord­ing to some authorities was introduced into Ireland at the time of the Norman invasion, though others assign an earlier date. Our diocesan and parish divisions are the most ancient geographical units we have. By parish we do not mean the modern parish but the ancient ecclesiastical division now generally known as “civil parish.” In the Protestant Church administration the older parish names are still used and the ancient boundaries and areas are pretty well recognised. In Catholic administration, however the old parish names have been largely lost and our present Catholic parishes are generally amalgamations of three or four or more ancient parishes. The boundaries of our parishes varied considerably during the Penal Days, but they became more or less fixed at the end of the 18th century” (St. Conleth’s Church, Droichead Nua, Year Book,1953).
               The present Kildare parish is a union of the former parishes of Kildare, Rathangan, Dunmurry, Tully, Clon­curry, Lullymore and Knavenstown, the Abbey land of Kildare and Silliatt Moone, and the parochial district of Ellistown. The Rathangan Protestant Church occupies the site of the old parochial Church. The original Church here was founded by the Anglo-Normans, possibly the Fitz­geralds. A Chapel of the Penal times, built about 1700, was just inside the wall that afterwards enclosed the Harberton demesne, near the high canal bridge. The present Church was built in 1816 by Rev. L. Mooney. But to treat adequately of Rathangan would require a separate booklet. There is an old burial-ground at Cloncurry which is no longer used. In it is the foundation of a building probably a Church. At Cappinarigid is another old graveyard with the ruins of a Church. Lullymore is the site of an old parochial Church. There was a religious community there early in the 18th century. In Dunmurry is an old graveyard and the site of a Parochial Church. In Knavens­town graveyard the east gable of an old Church stands. On April 26,1766, there were in this parish “fifteen families of which only one was Protestant, and the other fourteen were Papist. No priest or friar resided in the parish.” In Ellistown was a Chapel dedicated to St. Michael but the site is forgotten. There was a castle here in 1752. The Kildare Book of Survey shows “Patrick Sarsfield, Irish Papist as the proprietor of 94 profitable acres in Silliatt­-Moone Parish and 298 acres of Abbey land in Kildare.”

Chapter 21 of the An Tostal Programme of 1953 deals with the Modern Parish of Kildare - that is the Parish of Kildare as it was in 1953.

Posted by mariocorrigan at 01:34 AM