Maynooth College

Posted on02. May, 2009 by Maynooth Town Portal.

Maynooth College was founded in 1795 as a seminary for the education of priests and it soon grew to be very large. Over its history it has ordained more than 11,000 priests. Many of these have ministered outside Ireland and it has inspired two major missionary societies, directed to China (1918) and to Africa (1932).
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Maynooth Castle

Posted on02. May, 2009 by Maynooth Town Portal.

Maynooth Castle
Maynooth Castle like most Irish castles built before the middle of the thirteenth century, had as its dominating feature a great tower called a keep. Maynooth belongs to the group of castles each of which had a free standing keep which stood in a court enclosed by a curtain wall. This inner court [...]

NUI Maynooth

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

National University of Ireland, Maynooth is one of four constituent universities of the federal National University of Ireland. It is Ireland’s second oldest university. In that year, and as a direct consequence of the French Revolution and the turmoil then sweeping Europe, a College was established at Maynooth to accommodate the several hundred Irish students [...]

Maynooth Science Mueseum

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

Maynooth College Museum was established as a Museum of Ecclesiology in 1934 by a resolution of the Trustees of the College. Dr. William Moran, Professor of Dogmatic Theology was appointed by them as its first Curator. The Museum was to be a repository for various objects of Ecclesiastical and College interest, especially those which were [...]

Maynooth Town FC

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

Soccer has a long tradition in Maynooth.
It was played in the Harbour Field and in 1969 there were two clubs in the area, Maynooth St. Mary’s and Ballygoran United. These amalgamated in 1972 when the present club was born. The 1970′s were a particularly successful era. The club contested the Sheeran Cup Final and were [...]

Domhnall Ua Buachalla

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

Domhnall Ua Buachalla (pronounced Donal ou-a Bu-calla) or Donal Buckley (February 3, 1866 – October 30, 1963) was an Irish politician, who served as third and final Governor-General of the Irish Free State. His full name in English was Daniel Richard Buckley.
An Irish language activist and member of the Irish Volunteers Ua Buachalla from [...]

Carton House

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

History of Carton
At the east end of the main Street of Maynooth is the entrance to the long tree-lined . Together they I outstanding examples of the eighteenth-century Irish big-house and of eighteenth-century landscape gardening. The name Carton, Baile-an-Cairthe, means the town of the pillar stone. At different times the anglicised forms ‘the Carthyn’ [...]

The Geraldine Hall

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

History of the Hall
The front section of the Geraldine Hall was built in 1859 as the Church of Ireland parish school. The origin of parish schools goes back to an act of parliament of the reign of Henry VIII which directed that the incumbent of a benefice should ‘keep or cause to be kept…. a [...]

Presentation Order Maynooth

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

History of the Sisters Old Charter House
The founding group of four Presentation Sisters arrived in Maynooth in 1823 from the Richmond Convent in Dublin. They came largely at the request of the professor of Moral Theology at Maynooth College, Dr. Francis Anglade, one of the early staff members who were refugees from the French [...]

St. Mary’s Maynooth

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

History of Maynooth Parish Church
The rise in population after 1750 made the catholic chapel inadequate. In 1834 the then parish priest, Fr Patrick Savage began building a new parish church in a more prominent location.
Fr John Cainem
He died in1835 and his successor Fr John Cainem finished the work. In 1840 the new parish church of [...]

Connollys Folly

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

On the eastern approach to Maynooth, there is an unusual monument visible from the motorway. The monument known locally as the Obelisk, or more correctly Connolly’s Folly, dates from the early 1740s. The monument was commissioned by Catherine Connolly, the widow of William Connolly who was alleged to be the richest man in Ireland at [...]

Laraghbryan

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

 
Laraghbryan
Laraghbryan on the Western edge of the town is now a graveyard with headstones dating back to 1640. However its religious links can be traced back to the early Christian period when it was one of three religious houses in the Maynooth area sharing the honour with Taghadoe and Donaghmore. It has associations with the [...]

Taghadoe Round Tower

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

Dating back to the 6th century, the round tower at Taghadoe is the oldest surviving monument in the Maynooth area. The tower was part of a monastic settlement originally founded by Saint Tua and over time "Teach Tua" meaning Tua’s house, became Taghadoe.

Life In Ireland
While round towers were a part of early monastic life in [...]

Church of Ireland

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

The Church
St Mary’s Church and the Castle frame the gates to St. Patrick’s College at the western end of the town. The Church is as old as the Castle but hides its 800 years through extensive 19th century renovation. There is evidence that a church has occupied the current site of St. Mary’s since 1248 [...]

The Fall of Maynooth

Posted on22. Aug, 2008 by admin.

The detailed history of maynooth
Maynooth Castle was built where two small streams or rivers joined – the Lyreen and the Joan Slade (as it is called on an eighteenth- century map). By 1248 a chapel had also been built for in that year Maurice FitzGerald the second asked the archbishop of Dublin to erect the [...]