St. Mary’s Collegiate,
Dungarvan,
Co. Waterford,
Ireland.
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) tells us “DUNGARVAN, a sea-port, borough, market and post-town, and a parish, in the barony of DECIES-WITHOUT-DRUM, county of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER, 22 miles (S. W. by W.) from Waterford, and 97 ¾ miles (S. W. by S.) from Dublin, on the road from Waterford to Cork; containing 12,450 inhabitants, of which number, 8386 are in the town and borough. This place, formerly called Achad-Garvan, ….”
It is bleieved that this church was founded by Declan circa 450A.D.
These photographs were taken July 2014 when on a visit to St. Mary’s as part of the University College Cork, ACS Irish Genealogy Summer School 2014.
I had my camera set incorrectly for the first few photographs here, hence the brownish colour.
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- St. Mary’s Collegiate, Dungarvan, Waterford
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- St. Mary’s Collegiate, Dungarvan, Waterford
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- St. Mary’s Collegiate, Dungarvan, Waterford
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- Baptismal font, St. Mary’s Collegiate, Dungarvan, Waterford
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- St. Mary’s Collegiate, Dungarvan, Waterford
If you want to read something about the 2014 Summer school please see my post Gravestones & a bit. Irish Genealogy Summer School 2014