Welcome to Maynooth Campus
Guest Information Thank you for choosing Maynooth Campus guest accommodation. We hope you enjoy your stay on our historic campus. This booklet will help you to make the most of your time with us. It includes important contact numbers, guest policy, useful information on local services and a brief history of Maynooth. If we can assist in ensuring your experience is an enjoyable one, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Main reception: 01 708 6400 Important Information
Reception Cars parked illegally will be clamped. A release fee of Hours of Business: 08:30 – 23:00 daily €85.00 is charged. Management of parking is the During retreats and at Easter, hours may be reduced. responsibility of an external company, APCOA. We are unable to make representations on your behalf if Telephone: (00 353) 1 708 6400 your vehicle is clamped. If calling from a room or corridor phone, dial 6400 Email: [email protected] Access to South Campus at Night The main gate on the south campus closes at midnight Security (00:00). If the Security point is unattended when you Outside reception hours or in the event of an arrive please telephone the radio unit at 01 708 3929. emergency please contact security for assistance on There is no admission to the south campus after (00 353) 1 708 3929 01:00.
If calling from a room or corridor phone, dial 3929. Emergency Exits Please note that Security operates a one-way radio Please familiarise yourself with the location of your system. nearest emergency exit. The exits are illustrated on a map on the back of your bedroom door. In the event Medical Assistance of a fire do not use the lifts. Make your way to the Should you require a doctor after 20:00 please call nearest emergency exit. In the event of the fire alarm 01 453 9333. sounding please evacuate the building and follow the directions of staff members. Do not re-enter the Local doctors are on call until 20:00 and may be building unless instructed to do so. contacted via reception or by visiting this website: http://www.northkildaredoc.ie/. No Smoking Smoking is prohibited indoors To call an ambulance dial 911. in all buildings on the campus. Please inform security immediately so the ambulance Our no-smoking policy is may be guided to your location. strictly enforced. If the policy is not observed we will take Parking the following steps: On-campus parking is available free of charge outside A fine of €75.00 will be charged to your card of core term-time hours only. However, some The matter will be reported to the university variations apply. Please ensure that you park legally. authorities At all other times parking restrictions are in place. You will not be permitted to stay on-campus In term time limited south campus guest parking is again. available. Permits are available at reception for €2.00 per 24-hour period. A Pay & Display area also operates. Guest Services
Breakfast Continental breakfast is served in Pugin Hall from 08.00-11.00 and includes: Selection of juices Fresh fruit salad Cereal or porridge Sweet & savoury warm pastries Boiled eggs Toast, preserves & butter Tea/coffee/hot chocolate
Breakfast must be booked in advance. If you wish to add breakfast to your booking, simply contact reception at 01 708 6400 before 23:00. As Pugin Hall is the seminarians’ refectory, it is not open to guests on retreat dates during the academic Pugin Hall, the seminarians’ refectory year. Please contact reception to make alternative arrangements.
Room Facilities All en-suite rooms have a television. 40 TV channels and 18 radio stations are available. Tea/coffee making facilities are provided. If you require additional tea/coffee supplies please contact reception. All rooms have a hairdryer which is stored in the bedside locker or dressing-table. An iron and ironing-board are available on request. Heating is on a timer system. Please contact reception to request an additional heater (subject to availability).
Towels A hand towel, bath towel and bath mat (for safety) are provided. We respectfully request your co-operation in an effort to minimise environmental impact. If you are happy to re- use your towels, kindly leave them on the rail provided. Towels left on the floor will be replaced by housekeeping in line with the applicable room service policy.
Bedroom Telephone We regret that at this time we do not facilitate external calls on the bedroom phones. Calls to extension numbers on the university network may be made. External calls to reception may be transferred to bedroom telephones.
Wifi Wifi is available on campus free of charge. Please search for the Maynooth University network and click on proceed having read and agreed to the terms and conditions of usage. Edu-roam is also available on campus if applicable to you.
Do Not Disturb We offer our guests a Do Not Disturb option during the day. Hang the Do No Disturb Sign on your door and housekeeping will not enter the room. Depending on the applicable service level, fresh towels and other supplies may be left outside your door. However, we reserve the right to have housekeeping enter the room(s) on the second day after check-in, and every second day thereafter, to ensure that rooms are being maintained to our high standards. You are kindly requested to co-operate on this matter.
Checking Out Check-out is at 10:00 on the morning of departure. Please return your key card to reception or leave it in your bedroom for collection. Guests staying in St Patrick’s House may also use the postbox in the lift foyer.
Sun dial at Stoyte House Luggage A luggage storage service is available to our guests. Please note items left in the luggage store at reception are left at the owner’s risk.
Guest Details Only guests who have been booked and whose names have been provided to reception are entitled to stay in our rooms. You must notify reception and arrange payment for any additional guest(s). Permitting unregistered guests to stay in your room is a breach of our security policy. Your card will be charged accordingly and you will be refused permission to stay again.
Local Transport Options There are train and bus options for getting to and from Dublin city. Timetables can be found on www.irishrail.ie or www.dublinbus.ie. The Airport Hopper runs a regular service to the airport—see www.airporthopper.ie for details. Reception will book a taxi for you if required. Alternatively, two reliable local operators may be contacted directly: Murray Cabs 087 268 4399 or Maynooth Cabs 01 628 9999.
Your neighbours Please be aware that you will share the buildings with resident staff and students of the Seminary, and we ask you to respect their rights. Noise levels must be kept to a minimum. Consumption of alcohol or illegal substances on the premises is prohibited. Anyone deemed by Security to be likely to cause a disturbance to residents and guests will be refused admission to the campus. Restaurants, Pubs & Cafés
Maynooth is a Purple Flag town, with a vibrant The Brewery, Straffan Road 085 273 7919 culture of restaurants, cafés and pubs. Chocolate Bar, Main Street 01 629 1491 Restaurants in Maynooth The Coffee Mill, Mill Street 01 601 6594 Amber Tree, Mill Street 01 629 1022 European
Costa, Manor Mills, Mill Street 01 629 2050 The Avenue, Main Street 01 628 5003 European
The Natural Bakery, Manor Mills 01 504 8357 Bistro 53, Main Street 01 628 9001 European
O’Brien’s, Manor Mills La Brasserie, Fagan’s Lane 01 685 3742 Italian
Shoda Market Café, Glenroyal Hotel 01 629 0909 Donatello’s, Main Street 01 610 6558 Italian
Starbuck’s, John Paul II Library, south campus Kin Khao Thai, Greenfield S.C. 01 525 721 Thai
Willow & Wild, Courthouse Square 01 601 6750 Picaderos, Main Street 01 629 2806 Hispanic
Red Torch Ginger, Main Street 01 531 0022 Asian/ Pubs Thai Brady’s Clockhouse, Main Street 01 505 4725 Traditional music, Thursdays (performed by students) Saints Bistro, Glenroyal Hotel 01 629 0909 European The Duke & Coachman, Main Street 01 504 9112 Stonehaven, Mill Street 01 629 1229 European “Jazz Fridays”
Restaurants near Maynooth Fitzgerald’s Roost, Main Street 01 628 9843 Traditional music, Fridays Canteen, Main Street, Celbridge 01 627 4967
European McMahon’s, Main Street 01 629 1568
Traditional & other music, Fridays & Sundays The Linden Tree, Carton Demesne 01 505 2000
European Newtown Inn, Greenfield 01 629 1908
Traditional music, Thursdays Two Cooks, Canal View, Sallins 045 853 768
European O’Neill’s, Main Street 01 628 6255
Coffee Saints Bar, Glenroyal Hotel 01 629 0909 Bagel Factory, Manor Mills, Mill Street Piano sessions, Saturdays Local Services & Amenities
Shopping Pharmacies Manor Mills, Mill Street Hickey’s, Manor Mills 01 629 3065 Dunnes Stores and multiple retail outlets McCormack’s, Main Street 01 628 6274 Carton Retail Park, Dublin Road Maynooth CarePlus, Glenroyal S.C. 01 629 0948 Tesco and other large outlets Boots, Carton Retail Park 01 601 6721 Glenroyal Shopping Centre SuperValu and some small retail outlets McCartan’s, Carton Retail Park 01 628 6081
Greenfield Shopping Centre St Patrick’s, Greenfield S.C. 01 628 9166 Londis and some small retail outlets Banks & ATMs Liffey Valley, Fonthill Road AIB, Main Street ATM Marks & Spencer, Vue & multiple retail outlets
Bank of Ireland, Main Street ATM Kildare Village, Kildare
Outlet shopping centre Permanent TSB, Main Street ATM
Doctors KBC, Manor Mills Primacare, Manor Mills 01 629 3040 Ulster Bank, Main Street ATM Maynooth Medical Centre, Main Street 01 629 2556 There are also ATMs in the following locations: Science Glenroyal Medical Centre, Glenroyal S.C. 01 629 1169 Building and John Hume Building north campus); Dunnes Stores; Tesco; Glenroyal Hotel; Maxol & Circle K filling- Park Lodge Medical Centre, Straffan Road 01 628 9044 stations (both Straffan Road).
Kingsbry Medical Centre, Straffan Road 01 628 5210 Hair Salons & Barbers
The Academy Barber, Main Street 01 628 9363 Dentists Pearls Dental, Manor Mills 01 505 4276 Atelier M, Main Street 01 629 0229
John Merrick Dental, Main Street 01 628 6318 Beehive Hair Salon, Maynooth S.C. 01 628 5064
Ryebank Dental, Dublin Road 01 628 9284 Blue Ribbons, Buckley’s Lane 087 678 8486
Dr Paul Mulryan, Leinster Clinic 01 505 2132 Charlies Barbers, Manor Mills 01 6291883 Local Services & Amenities
OB-1 Hairdressing, Glenroyal S.C. 01 629 3900 Jewellers
Maynooth Jewellers & Antiques, Main Street 01 628 5946 Occasions Hairdressing, Carton Retail Park 01 629 1805
Helen’s Hair Affair, Newtown S.C. 01 628 9693 Phones
Redz, Greenfield S.C. Carphone Warehouse, Manor Mills 01 505 2041
The Square Barbers, Courthouse Square 01 628 9363 Vodafone, Manor Mills 01 629 2007
2 Guys, Main Street 01 628 5757 Repairs Shoes The Village Barber, Dunboyne Road 01 628 5958 Jim’s Shoe Repair, Carton Retail Park, 086 865 7142
Supermarkets Clothes Dunnes Stores, Manor Mills SC. 01 601 6692 The Zip Yard, Main Street 01 504 0836
Centra, Main Street 01 628 5247 Phones TechnoG, Main Street 01 503 0441 Aldi, Kilcock Road, 1800 991 828 Xpressfix, Mill St. 01 504 9500 Mroz Maynooth, Double Lane 087 248 3933 Cars Londis, Main Street Maynooth Car Tyres, Doctor’s Lane 087 288 1208
Supervalu, Glenroyal S.C. 01 629 0932 DS Tyres Motor Services & Crash Repairs, Dublin Road 083 002 7382 Spar, Newtown S.C. 01 628 5833 Leavey Auto Service, Old Greenfield 087 239 6424 Tesco, Carton Retail Park, Dublin Road 1890 928 459 Filling Stations Lidl, Straffan Road 01 629 1096 Tesco Petrol, Carton Retail Park 1890 928 459
Health Food Shops Maxol Service Station, Straffan Road 01 505 4634 Holland & Barrett, Manor Mills 01 610 6688 Circle K, Straffan Road 01 629 0472 I Love Organic, Doctor’s Lane 087 969 3976
Maynooth Organics, Moyglare Road 087 969 3976 Local Services & Amenities
Launderettes Miscellaneous Greenfield Dry Cleaners, Greenfield S.C. 01 629 0486 Glenroyal Leisure Club, Glenroyal Hotel 01 629 1313
Newtown Dry Cleaners, Newtown S.C. 087 310 8807 NCS Autoparts, Main Street 01 628 6628 Player 1 Gaming, Manor Mills 01 628 6780 There are Revolution Laundromats at Tesco and Circle K filling-station. Post Office, Carton Retail Park 01 628 6259
Garda Stations (Police) Religious Services Maynooth, Leinster Street 01 629 2380 Roman Catholic (Mon – Sat 10:00-13:00 & 19:00-20:00) St Mary’s Church, Moyglare Road Leixlip, Station Road, 01 666 7800 (24 hours) Saturday: 19:00 (Folk Group – every second week) Sunday: 08:45, 10:00 (Family Mass), 11:30 (Church Adult Choir), 13:00 Monday – Friday: 08:00 and 10:00 Saturday: 10:00 First Friday: 08:00 and 10:00
Church of Ireland St. Mary’s Church, Parsons Street Sunday Service:11.30 First Wednesday of Month Eucharist: 10:30
The College Chapel and College Spire Things to Do
Maynooth is a Purple Flag town. It offers the visitor Horse-riding a range of things to do, both in the immediate locality There are two equestrian centres within a 10-minute and in the north Kildare and west Dublin area. drive from Maynooth: Blackberry Stables 01 628 6232 Walking Clonfert Equestrian Centre 087 932 2909 The grounds of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, are open to the public. The parkland area at the rear of Cinema the college, informally known as ‘the Graf’, features The nearest cinema complex is Vue, in Liffey Valley tree-lined walks. Guests are welcome to visit the Shopping Centre, which is a 15-minute drive from the College Cemetery, Junior Garden and St campus. Joseph’s Square. The Odeon in Naas is 25 minutes away. The Royal Canal passes through Maynooth and runs next to the south campus perimeter wall. In Family & Group Attractions recent years the tow-paths have been upgraded under Base, Maynooth Road, Celbridge 01 654 4264 the Greenway scheme. Ideal for strolls away from busy traffic, with Kilcock and Leixlip in reach for Tayto Park, Ashbourne 01 835 1999 those who prefer a longer walk.
Carton House is on the outskirts of Maynooth and has a network of walkways through its two golf Visitor Attractions courses and woods. It is accessible on foot along Kildare offers an abundance of visitor attractions. Carton Avenue, which extends from the eastern end In Maynooth, tours of St Patrick’s College are run of Main Street, or via the Royal Canal at Pike Bridge, twice a day in summer (www.visitmaynooth.com). opposite the main entrance to the estate. Maynooth Castle, which is an OPW site, also offers guided tours during the summer. Golf At the gates of the campus, opposite Maynooth Castle, an Ireland’s Ancient East sign lists nearby The following clubs are within 20 minutes of Maynooth: sites. For further information on these visit Carton House (O’Meara & Montgomerie www.irelandsancienteast.com/ . courses) 01 505 2000 Of particular interest in the Maynooth vicinity K-Club (Palmer & Smurfit courses) 01 601 7200 are Castletown House and the Wonderful Barn. Kilcock G.C. 01 628 7592 Various brochures for attractions can be found at Lucan G.C. 01 628 0246 reception or please feel free for ask reception for Killeen G.C. 045 866 003 further information on the closest sites to the campus Castlewarden G.C. 01 458 9254 and places of interest in Dublin city. Millicent G.C. 045 893 279 Palmerstown House Estate 045 906 901 Moyvalley G.C. 046 954 8080 Naas G.C. 045 897 509 A Brief History of Maynooth
We hope you enjoy your stay with us here on a The Great Earl—and perhaps even more so his son campus truly steeped in history. Archaeological Garrett Óg—seemed able to combine control of Irish evidence indicates that humankind has been passing tribal policies with a wider European vision. through this area for thousands of years. In ancient However, the second Tudor King, Henry VIII, times, this land would have been situated on one of was not prepared to let the Fitzgeralds ‘rule all the great roads to Tara, the Slighe Mor. Recent Ireland’. Garrett Óg was summoned to London, to die excavations at the Geraldine castle site just outside the ultimately in the Tower of London ‘of thought and entrance to the south campus unearthed evidence of a pain’. His son, Thomas, led a bloody revolt in a Neolithic [3000-1500 BC] house with postholes. From deliberate attempt to assert Fitzgerald indispensability, such humble beginnings, Maynooth ultimately grew yet the great castle was battered into submission and to be a location of great significance in the broader the garrison massacred. ‘Silken Thomas’ surrendered history of Ireland. and was executed at Tyburn with his five uncles. The name Maynooth derives from the Gaelic Silken Thomas’s tree, under which legend has it he ‘Magh Nuadh’, meaning ‘the plain of Nuadha’. Early played the lute, is a great yew on the left as one Leinster legends hold that Maynooth is named after approaches Stoyte House, and is considered the oldest Nuadha of the silver arm, one of the Kings of the native tree in Ireland. mythical Tuatha de Danann who led his people into Ireland but was later disqualified from kingship because of the ‘blemish’ of his silver arm. Despite the name, however, Maynooth’s strongest association is with the Fitzgeralds.
Maynooth and the Fitzgeralds This association began in 1176, when Maurice Fitzgerald was granted a manor in the area by Strongbow, King of Leinster. He began to fortify a stronghold at the confluence of the Lyreen and Abhann Slad streams. The great keep was in existence Stoyte House, where St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, before 1200, and in 1248 a chapel in the complex of was founded in 1795 buildings is mentioned. In all probability it was on the site of the present Church of Ireland. After the family Maynooth College was granted the status of Earls of Kildare in 1316, and In the early sixteenth century a third-level college was lucky enough to produce a male heir in each flourished briefly in what is now the Church of Ireland generation, the power of the Fitzgeralds peaked with parish church, though it did not survive the upheavals Garrett Mór (1478-1513) and Garrett Óg (1513-34). of the Reformation. In 1795 an Act of the Irish A complaint against Garrett Mór was made to the first parliament established a national seminary at Tudor monarch, Henry VII, to the effect that ‘all Maynooth, a move sanctioned by the British Crown in Ireland cannot rule this man’, to which he is reputed an effort to dilute the influence of French to have replied ‘then this man shall rule all Ireland’. Revolutionary thinking on trainee priests educated A bird’s-eye view of Maynooth College, 1895 heretofore on the continent. The College opened in House. Nearby, the tranquil Junior Garden extends the autumn of 1795 in a house recently built by John west to Junior Infirmary. Stoyte, steward of the Duke, which is still In the 1840s it became politically expedient ‘to distinguishable as the projection on the row of do something for Ireland’ and part of that ‘something’ buildings facing the front gate, and it is called Stoyte was a building grant of £30,000 for Maynooth. It was House. the height of the ‘Gothic Revival’ and its leading A mere three years later, work began on a wing exponent, Augustus Welby Pugin, was chosen as running north-south to the rear of Stoyte House, architect. He chafed at the financial constraints, but called Long Corridor. Such was the rate of growth produced three sides of St. Mary’s Square in plain that the rooms added were instantly occupied, and thirteenth-century Gothic, much plainer than Pugin’s work began on what was ultimately to become dream, although few approaching the impressive St Joseph’s Square. New entrance to St. Patrick’s House House was completed in 1809, would find fault with this while the Dunboyne and simplicity. Pugin’s greatest Humanity houses were grievance was that funds did not completed by 1824. South of the run to a College Chapel. While square is a cluster of buildings Irish Catholicism had by now which housed the lay college, at begun the building of new the heart of which is the finest churches, some in an ornate heritage building in the College, Gothic style, the chapel of the the eighteenth-century national seminary was still a hall in Riverstown Lodge. Two large the north end of Long Corridor, buildings, Rhetoric House and regarded as temporary when it was Logic House, were built in the first used in 1800. The Chapel, to early 1830s and became the Junior be built by public subscription, Maynooth College Chapel interior was initiated by Charles W. Russell, President from the mid-1960s lay students have also been educated at 1857 to 1880. The architect was J.J. McCarthy, Maynooth. Professor of Architecture at the Catholic University. In 1984 the John Paul II Library became the last The foundation stone was laid on 20 October 1875 significant structural addition to the south campus. A and it was finally opened for worship on 24 June major extension was completed in 2012. Since the 1891. It is in French fourteenth-century Gothic, more early 1990s an ongoing development programme has ornate than Pugin’s buildings, and it can only truly be transformed the north campus, providing major appreciated upon entering and experiencing the light teaching and administration buildings, four falling through the Rose Window, illuminating row accommodation villages and sports and dining upon row of individually carved oak stalls. facilities. The new St Patrick’s College quickly established In 1997, following a restructuring of the National itself as a major seminary and, to celebrate its University of Ireland, NUI Maynooth (Maynooth centenary, Pontifical University status was granted in University) was established as 1896. Over its history it has ordained more than a separate entity. Maynooth 11,000 priests. Many of these have ministered outside now has an enrolment of Ireland and it has inspired two major missionary 14,000, with students from societies, directed to China (1916) and to Africa every county in Ireland and (1932). In 1910 it became a recognised college of the with an increasing number newly formed National University of Ireland. Since from overseas.
St Patrick’s House, part of the Pugin buildings, completed in 1852. The College Chapel was opened in 1891.
Guided Tours Guided tours are available twice a day from early June to early September. Group tours (15-25 people) may be booked in advance. For details see www.visitmaynooth.com or enquire at reception. Feedback