Enniskerry (includes Curtlestown, Kilmacanogue & Glencree)

Typed letter to Rev. P. Dunne from [L. Ua…], Dept. of Education, transmitting the counterpart lease for a plot of ground in the site of Enniskerry N.S.

• 2 September 1959 Letters from Fr. John Nolan to +McQuaid regarding the Centenary of the Constitution of the Parish of Enniskerry.

Correspondence involving the Order, the Archbishop, the Parish Priest of Enniskerry and Government agencies including the Army regarding Glencree foundation which recently ceased to be a Reformatory on the transfer of this to Daingean. Briefly it is serving as a seminary for late vocations for the Order. The government wishes to acquire it for turf-cutting in the circumstances of War-Time Emergency. The Oblates sell it to the government, retaining only the church. There is a tense stand-off between the Archbishop and Provincial which is eventually resolved. Two Oblate priests remain as chaplains to a succession of occupants, principally 400 at the peak of production (turf-cutters). At the end of the Emergency the government prepares to terminate turf-saving.

File relating to Reports on Churches and Presbyteries in Enniskerry, Kilmacanogue and Curtlestown.

• 20 June 1970 File relating to the building of a house on land adjacent to ‘Cuilnoc’. See 59/16. Plan of church and presbytery site in Map Cabinet drawer 1, MP97 Site plan for new Curate’s House, 1954, Map Cabinet drawer 1, MP267 Proposed Curate’s House at Enniskerry, 1954, Map Cabinet drawer 1, MP268

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.