St Martin de Porres Church, Old Bawn

St Martin de Porres, Tallaght

Tallaght

This church is still ahead. Its chapter will be written when its visit comes.

§What is known

Built: 1976 · Not identified within the research budget.
Dedication: St Martin de Porres

Mass times

Sunday: 12:30 PM
Saturday: 7:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM (Weekday Mass)
Wednesday: 10:00 AM (Weekday Mass)
Thursday: 10:00 AM (Weekday Mass)
Friday: 10:00 AM (Weekday Mass)

§Where

Address: Old Bawn, Tallaght, Dublin 24

Open route ↗ Official website ↗ Return to the map

No photographs yet — the essay appears only after the visit.

§Notes

Fragments gathered while researching this church: stories, curiosities, people and dates.

Possibly the only church in Ireland dedicated to St Martin de Porres

The parish website states that, as far as the parish is aware, this is the only parish church in Ireland dedicated to St Martin de Porres, the seventeenth century Peruvian Dominican lay brother.

First parish in Ireland transferred from a religious order to a diocese

The parish website describes the August 1999 handover of pastoral care from the Dominicans to the Dublin Archdiocese as the first time in Ireland a parish was handed over from a religious order to a diocese. This claim was not independently verified within the research budget.

Timeline

1976
Church opened and blessed The church was officially opened and blessed by Archbishop Dermot Ryan on 12 December 1976.
1985
Parish constituted Old Bawn was formally constituted as a parish in 1985.
1999
Pastoral care transferred from Dominicans to the Dublin Archdiocese In August 1999 the Dominican Order handed pastoral care of the parish to the Archdiocese of Dublin, described by the parish website as the first time in Ireland a parish was handed from a religious order to a diocese.

People

Dermot Ryan Archbishop of Dublin who opened and blessed the church — Archbishop Dermot Ryan of Dublin officially opened and blessed the church on 12 December 1976.