Dingle Chapel, Kerry

[Laura444]

Hello all,

Can anyone tell me where Dingle Chapel is? Is it part of St Mary's?

I am curious as a number of ancestors were married there in the early to mid 1800's.

Was browsing Dingle information on the internet, WOW what a beautiful part of the world!

Thank you in advance for your time and help thinking about this question.

Kind regards,

Laura

[myluck!]

Depending on the dates this may be the chapel referred to

There are references to Presentation sisters/nuns in Dingle from 1829 when their convent and chapel was housed in a former building; masses were said in the oratory/church of the convent from the 1830s

There was a chapel attached to the Presentation Convent that dated to the latter part of the the 1800s; it is now a visitor's centre and has a fabulous Chapel on Green Street
http://www.diseart.ie/about/about.html

[shanew147]

here's the Church on the OSI maps - listed as St. Mary's on the later map..

   Dingle RC Chapel - c1840
   Dingle St. Mary's RC  Chapel - c1890

It was the parish church for the area.


Shane

[myluck!]

The nuns donated part of their land for the building of St. Mary's Church in the 1860s - it was completed in the early 1870s

[Laura444]

Hi myluck! and Shane,

Thank you very much for taking the time to guide me to the location of the chapel.

Now (that you were kind enough to assist) I can also see the following:

From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/D/Dingle-Corkaguiney-Kerry.php

"The chapel at Dingle is a handsome and spacious modern edifice, and there are chapels at Ventry and Lispole. Adjoining the chapel at Dingle is a convent for nuns of the order of the Presentation, a branch from that of Tralee, established here in 1829; a neat chapel is attached, which contains a finely and well executed altar-piece of the crucifixion."

Thank you both very much for your time in reading and replying to my question, it's much appreciated 

Kind regards,

Laura