THE PARISH OF TANEY D NDR M A HISTORY OF U U , EA D BL N R U IN, D AND ITS NEIG HBOURHOO . FRANCIS EL RING TON BAL L EVERARD HAMIL TON , B . A . , UNIV . OF DU B . , ' M em ber R oy a l S ocie ty of A ntzq ua ries of Ireland D U B L I N H D D RA F O S FI I CO . L T . G TON ST. G E G G S , , , , PUBL ISHERS TO THE U NIVERS ITY . TO TH E R EV M A FR ED M I L TO N D D . W I L L IA L H A , . , S ome tim e Canon of Clz ris t Ch u rch C a thed ra l THIS HISTORYOF HIS PARISH IS IN S C R IB ED E F A E P R C . IN b efore ublic placing this little work the p , the authors desire to acknowledge the valuable assist ance they have received from the following amongst other friends . D. D. The Rev . Canon Stokes , , the learned author f Ireland and the Celtic Church Ireland and o , and - h r h the A n l N rman C u c &c . &c . g o o , , , has very kindly revised the chapter upon the Antiquities of the Parish , and supplied the materials for interesting note s . l R l B D. e ne . The, Rev William y , , placed his ample knowledge of the clergy of the Diocese d f of Dublin at their isposal , besides urnishing many particulars for the biographical portions of the work . To John H . Samuels , Esq . , the Diocesan Registrar , they desire to return thanks for his unvarying PREFACE courtesy in affording access to such of the Records as remain in his custody . They are also indebted to J . J . Digges La . D . of Touche , Esq , LL , Deputy Keeper the Re ffi cords , and the other officials in the Record O ce , as well as to the officials of th e Library and ’ ‘ Registrar s Ofiice of Trinity College and of the a . Nation l Library , Kildare Street tem b r 1 95 . Sep e , 8 C ONTENTS . I . INTRO DUCTION II . ANTIQUITIES III . THE GRAVEYAR D IV . CHR IST CHUR CH V . ABCHDEACON OF DUBL IN AS RECTOR FROM 185 1 PAB ISHIONEB S CHOOLS PAR IS H OFFICERS LERE OU SE AND S , , G H THE CHAP EL OF EASE MISCELLANEOU S N OTES AP PENDICES SU PP L EMENTAL NOTES INDEX ABBREVIA TION S . Taney Church . Taney Graveyard . ’ Burke s Landed Gentry . ’ Burke s Peerage . ’ E P a Burke s xtinct eer ge . T b . rinity College , Du lin Holy Orders . aged . b orn married . unmarried . died or dead . s died or dead without i sue . z b apti ed . a d ughter . b uried . called . whom see or which see . THE PARISH OF TANEY. C H A P T E R I . INT RODU C T ION . HE Parish of Taney comprises a district extend ing from the top of the Three Rock Mountain to near the sea - shore at Merrion ; it is 55 miles long 2 a . W . N . from to S , and 4; miles bro d from E to It 4 5GOA . 3R . contains seventeen townlands , covering , 1 P . f A . OR . 14 p . o 6 Statute measure , which all but 7 f Ra hd n “ are in the Half Barony o t ow . This small of of Roe portion , which forms part the townland i buck, lies in the Barony of Dubl n . The following are the townlandszz B al ll 1 . a y 2 . B allinteer 3 . Churchtown , Lower 4 . n U Churchtow , pper * ’ D Alton Hist r o Co Du blin 80 ta ( o y f . , p . 7) s tes the entire Barony of R ath down was originally in the County of Dub lin b u c w as a a a n t when Wi klow made into sep r te cou ty , the Barony was divided into two p arts th at p art of it lying to the south of Bray River b eing comprised in the County of and a Wicklow , the rem inder in the County of Dublin . B F 2 THE PARISH O TANEY . a 5 . Drumm rtin 6 . Dundrum rr nb ole 7 . Fa a y iarland 8 . Fr 9 . Kingstown A l 10 . Mount nvil e 1 M ountm errion Callar 1 . or y ntm errion 12 . Mou , South R a 13 . athmines , Gre t R L 14 . athmines , ittle b 15 . Roe uck 16 . Tiknock Trim leston Owenstown 17 . or 3 14 The parish is bounded on the east by the parishes f Kilm acud o Booterstown , Stillorgan , , Tullow , and Kilgobb in ;on the west by Rathfarnham and White ’ Church and on the north by St . Peter s and of Donnybrook . A small portion the parish touched - the sea shore at Merrion , but was transferred to the of 18 . parish Booterstown in May , 77 The following is a statement of the population and number of houses, taken from the Census returns Population f No. 0 Houses 766 7 INTRODUCTION . 3 m The parish is a Rectory , which from the ti e of Archbishop Luke of Dublin (1228 - 1255) was of n attached to the Archdeaconry Dubli , in support of that dignity , and the Archdeacon continued 18 51 on Rector down to the year , when , the death f of o Archdeacon Torrens , by an order the Lord * Lieutenant in Council , the parish was separated from the Archdeaconry . It is not thought necessary in the following pages to give the succession of the Archdeacons of b e fu Dublin , which will found , with ll biographical ’ ’ P at k H ist r o S t . ric s notes , in Mason s o y f , and in ’ ’ e ce e icce Cotton s Fastt Eccl si t m . So far as is of r possible , the succession their cu ates who have had charge of the parish is given ; but owing to the diocesan records not being at present accessible , it is very incomplete until the end of the eighteenth rds reco . century , when the parish Tbegin Before that time the parish only enj oyed the ministrations of curates who had other churches to serve in the ’ Archdeacon s corps . In the chapter upon the antiquities of the parish will be found an account of the ancient Deanery of Taney ; the modern rural deanery is of much 180 2 smaller extent . In the latter comprised the Kil ob b in l parishes of Taney , g , Rathfarnham , Sti l a C org n , rumlin , and Tallaght and its contents are still f the same , with the addition o the parishes of Kilternan Z Whitechurch , , ion Church Rathgar, A A ppendix . TAppendix B . F 4 THE PARISH O TANEY . i ch a el of and Milltown , and includ ng the p ease , ’ of . C Taney , and the chapels St Columba s ollege , of Ma eou h the g g Home , and of the Central Asylum , Dundrum . It will be noticed that the name of the parish is spelled in many different ways in the following a p ges ;the rule which has been observed is , when quoting from any document, to follow the peculiar l spe ling found in it . This observation also applies to the names of the other places mentioned . C H A P T E R I I . A N TI QU ITIES . of HE Parish Taney , as an ecclesiastical estab li hm ent of s , has survived the vicissitudes many centuries ; and there seems little room for doubt , although we cannot point to a noble edifice erected - of by the master builders the middle ages , that the worship of God has been conducted in this place since before the English conquest of Ireland 2 in 1 17 . But the parish seems not to have been the earliest ecclesiastical establishment to which the name of Taney was attached . 11 2 When Cardinal Paparo visited Ireland in 5 , one f he found , it is said, that Taney was o the or ch ore ISCO ates rural sees , p p , which then existed , and which were taken as the extent of the j urisdic Arch re sb ters - tion of the p y rural , who supplanted rural bishops , and who were the predecessors Of our * present Rural Deans . There is no doubt that the Rural Deanery of f Taney was o great extent in ancient times . 1 2 94 About , there was a new taxation of the of Po e Diocese Dublin for the p , and the total sum ’ Dan e H D ani R u s s m e ec cce ales . II . 516 5 y o r , vol , pp , 17 . 6 THE PARISH OF TANEY . lls. raised in the Diocese was £707 , a very large amoun t in those days . In this taxation we find the Deanery of Tanb y &c . mentioned , and the following places , , included in it - Church of Coulok (Coolock) ; Chapel of ’ “ Isolde s Town (Chapelizod), where the Hospitallers ” are rectors ; the tithes of the monks of Clonschi lagh (Clonsilla) ; Church of L eucane (Lucan) f C of Monastery o St . hurch Bali therm ot B all farm ot “ ( y ), where the Hospitallers ” are rectors ; Church of Kylm ahud (Kilm acu d) ; f h f a . Temporality o t e Prior o St . C therine ( St ’ of K lm atalwe Catherine s , near Leixlip) Church y y Kilm actal a of K nturk ( w y) ; Chapel y , Temporality ’ of All Saints there ; Temporality of the Monks at Kylm atalwey ; the Prioress of L e sm olyn at Clonschilagh (Clonsilla) ; Dunsenk (Dunsink) and B l e e rene Bel ree CO .