Nearest RC Church to Fizgibbon Street Dublin

[BeeMack]

Can anyone tell me what would have been the nearest Roman Catholic Church to Fitzgibbon Street  and Upper Dorset Street  in the early 1920s ?
My relatives converted from CI to RC and I was wondering what Church would my grandmother hav been buried from.

Thank you.

[Oaks and Acorns]

Did you try here?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,417971.0.html

On Shane's 1885 map the Jesuits in Gardiner Street looks closest.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/07hp/

Dara

[BeeMack]

Thank you Oaks and Acorns for the links.  The Map of Dublin is very useful and also very interesing. Thanks again
BeeMack

[tcmouse]

Bee Mack, While Oaks & Acorns is correct about Gardiner Street Church being the nearest, back then it was not recognized as a diocesan or parish church and I think the parish for Fitzgibbon street would have been  North William Street which is also quite close.

[BeeMack]

Thanks tcmouse... I think you may be right.
The reason for the questioning is  I am trying to locate a possible place of marriage...   The person in question was originally C of I and attended St Georges in Rutland Place and then the family converted to RC  (Did people officially convert then..??)   so where did they attend then ?

[shanew147]

Apparently Gardiner Street Church (St. Francis Xavier) has only been a parish church since 1974 - the new parish was based on areas previously in the parish  of St. Agatha's, North William St and others.

 see : http://www.gardinerstparish.ie/history/history-of-the-church

records for St. Agatha's parish (up to about 1900) are included in the new Irish Genealogy website at : http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ - not sure what year the marriage you are looking for took place - but it may be worth checking that to see if it's listed there.


Shane

[eadaoin]

if you get the civil cert, it will give the church in which the marriage took place
 
if St Agatha fails ...
- there's also Seán McDermott St (Our Lady of Lourdes) - not a parish till 1970ish, but part of Pro-cathedral ... I have a marriage cert from there in 1916, tho' the actual registers may be still in Pro-cathedral

eadaoin