St Michaels Church, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
Route 1.
St Michael’s, Dun Laoghaire.
Saint Michael’s church Dun Laoghaire which is situated on the junction of
Georges
Street and Marine road, with the main body of the church building running
down
Marine road toward the seafront. The older church had a damaging fire
during the
1960s and was rebuilt, except the tower steeple, in the early 1970s.
The tower seen in the image
is the only remaining part of the original church
Inside the church are a number of exceptional images and statues along
with
a number of shrines. What I would term the
central nave does not run, as
might
be expected from the main door to the altar, but rather from the southern
wall to the altar.
There is to be also found a slightly unusual baptismal font just inside the main entrance to the church.
The church building has a number of bus services passing
up Marine road
including the No 7, the No 7A, and the No 111.
The present bus routes may to be replaced by local
route L11
The church is still in practical daily use, with the mornings given
over to Mass,
some Rosary groups in some
churches, and funerals. So unless I intended to
fully
attend mass I would normally keep my three Saints visits to the
afternoons, this is after the 12noon Angelus and before 3.30pm
approximately.
Route 1. Dun Laoghaire church.
Some internal features of St Michael's.
St Michael.