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of two pillars and four pilasters in the Grecian Doric
style, prolonged at each end by a parochial house, thus
presenting a façade of 160 feet in length. The cost of
erection, which is defrayed by subscription, amounted
to £18,000. In Clarendon-street is the chapel of St.
Teresa, belonging to the order of the Discalced Carmelites,
the inmates of which consist of a provincial, a prior, and
six friars. It is a spacious building of plain exterior:
in front of the altar is a fine statue of a Dead Christ in
Italian marble, by Hogan. Attached to the convent is
an almshouse for widows, and the Society of St. Joseph,
for promoting the exercise of spiritual and corporal
works of mercy. There is a parochial school attended
by upwards of 3100 female children: it is in connec-
tion with the National Board of Education. Within the
parish there are the following religious institutions; the
House of Mercy, Baggot-street, the inmates of which
consist of a superioress and a sisterhood of 15, who
maintain a day school of about 300 children, visit the
sick poor, and receive under their protection distressed
women of good character; their house is a plain large
building of three stories. In Stephen’s-green East is
St. Vincent’s Hospital, containing 60 beds, and a dis-
pensary, founded by the sisters of charity: a superioress
and sisterhood of six preside over it. The Asylum for
Female Penitents, in Townsend-street, is superintended
by a superioress and a sisterhood of three, and affords
shelter and the means of reformation to 41 penitents.
The Andrean Orphans’ Friend Society was revived in
1835, and supports 28 children by weekly penny sub-
scriptions; the Orphan Society of St. John of the Cross
is supported in like manner.
St. Audeon’s the smallest R. C. parish in the city,
comprises the whole of the Protestant parish of the
same name. The chapel, situated off Bridge-street, is
in bad repair and too small for the congregation; a con-
siderable sum has been already subscribed towards its
re-erection. There is a male and female school in
which 20 of each sex are clothed; also the Malachian
Orphan Society for destitute children. John Power, Esq.,
in 1835, erected in Cook-street a building for 24 aged
and destitute widows, at an expense of about £700; it
is supported by subscriptions and an annual charity
sermon.
St. Catherine’s comprises nearly the whole of the Pro-
testant parish of the same name. The duty is performed
by a parish priest and seven officiating clergymen. The
chapel was erected in Meath-street, in 1780: it is a
very spacious octagon building of brick, with a gallery
along five of its sides, the altar being in the centre of
the other three. Near it is a school, erected in 1823
by subscription, and attended by upwards of 400 chil-
dren of each sex: there are also Sunday schools. A
chapel in John’s-lane belongs to the Augustinian friary of
St. John; the inmates consist of a prior and four friars.
The chapel, a spacious structure, occupies part of the
site of the priory of St. John the Baptist, which was
founded in the year 1188 by A. Du Palmer; and in
connection with it is a female orphan school, also an
asylum for old and destitute men, in Rainsford-street.
To this convent belonged the Rev. Wm. Gahan, author
of many pious works.
St. James’s parish comprises nearly the whole of the
Protestant parish of the same name. The duty is per-
formed by a parish priest, who is also chaplain to the
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county gaol of Kilmainham, and by four officiating
clergymen. The chapel, which is situated at James-
gate, is about to be taken down and a new building
erected. There is a chapel at Dolphin’s Barn for the
accommodation of that populous district; and also a
nunnery of the Carmelite order, consisting of a supe-
rioress and a sisterhood of 16, established in 1834,
in the same neighbourhood, attached to which is a free
school for girls. There is a National school for boys
and girls; also St. James’ and St. Joseph’s Orphan
Society, which maintains 50 children. The Catholic
cemetery, Golden-Bridge, described under that head,
is in this parish.
St. Michael’s and St. John’s parish comprises the
Protestant parishes of St. Michael, St. John, St. Nicho-
las Within, and St. Werburgh, and parts of those of St.
Peter, St. Andrew, and St. Bride. The duty is per-
formed by a parish priest and five officiating clergymen.
The chapel, situated in Exchange-street and erected in
1815, has two fronts of hewn stone in the later English
style: the exterior is of elegant design, and in the in-
terior, which is richly embellished, are three altars; over
each respectively are paintings of the Crucifixion, of
St. John the Evangelist by Del Frate, and of St. Michael
trampling on Satan, a copy from Guido; its fine organ,
made by Lawless, cost £800. It contains a handsome
monument to Dr. Betagh, a celebrated preacher, who
died in 1811, and another to the Rev. Dr. Anglen; at
one end are six confessionals of elegant design and
beautiful workmanship. The chapel was erected between
1813 and 1816, at a cost of nearly £10,000, which was
defrayed by subscription. Attached to it is a house for
the residence of the clergymen, containing 20 spacious
apartments with a corridor to each story; the cost
of its erection was about £2000, and it was completed
in the short space of two months and eight days. A
chapel in Whitefriar-street belongs to the order of
Calced Carmelites; the inmates are a provincial, a
prior, and six friars, whose residence is in an adjoining
house in Aungier-street. The chapel has its front to
Whitefriar-street: the interior presents a beautiful
architectural view; the right side has a range of large
windows, and the left is ornamented with corresponding
niches, filled with statues of eminent saints; the ceiling
is coved and divided into rectangular compartments;
its erection cost £4000. It stands on the site of a
Carmelite church founded in 1274, upon land granted
by Sir Robert Bagot. The remains of St. Valentinus,
martyr, have been translated from Rome by order of
Pope Gregory XVI., and are deposited in this chapel in
a suitable vase. Another, which is a cruciform structure,
situated on Merchants’-quay, belongs to the order of
Franciscans; the inmates are a prior and six friars. It
is dedicated to St. Francis of Assisium, but is more
generally known by the name of Adam and Eve, from
an ancient chapel of that name on the site of which the
present building was erected. When finished it will
exhibit the ceiling divided into enriched panels; the
interior ornamented with pilasters, supporting an en-
riched cornice of granite, over which the windows are
placed; there are three elegant and commodious gal-
leries, capable of holding 1500 persons; the altar will
be constructed in the most florid style of Corinthian
architecture: an Ionic portico is to front the river. In
Smock-alley are parochial schools for both sexes, in