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Holy Trinity Church

This Roman Catholic church is a stonking great neo-Gothic affair built in fits and starts 1830-1890. (No jokes about workmen's leisurely lunch breaks please, the famine years were the problem.) There's an active Capuchin Friary attached. The church is dedicated to Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856) who founded the temperance movement in Ireland, but fell into bad odour on a trip to the USA for his weasel equivocations on abolition of slavery.

Address: Father Mathew Quay T12 EF63
Website: capuchinfranciscans.ie (opens in a new tab)

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