A view of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, from a slightly elevated position. The print shows the building before the addition of the Sacred Heart Chapel which was built as an aisle church in 1908. The caption refers to the ordination of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856) in the previous chapel on Church Street in 1809. With cover. A copy of this image is extant at CA-PH-1-71.
An aerial view of St. Kieran's College ('Coláiste Chiaráin') in Kilkenny in about 1935. The college is a secondary school and was formerly a seminary. The seminary was closed in 1994.
A view of St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork. The cemetery was established by Fr. Theobald Mathew, the temperance campaigner and Capuchin friar, in 1830. The Church of Christ the King in Turner's Cross is visible in the background of the image.
This file includes a document relating to St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Cork. In the late 1820s, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC expressed his discontent that all the graveyards in the city remained under Protestant supervision. Permission had to be obtained by priests to officiate at Catholic burials. This permission was frequently only grudgingly given and having personally witnessed an attempt by the Protestant Dean of Cork to prevent the Catholic Dean from officiating in St. Finbarr’s Churchyard, Fr. Mathew moved to acquire a burial ground for Catholics. As a result of a well-supported subscription, parts of the Botanic gardens were leased and opened in February 1830 and were designated as St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
