Pearse Street, Sallynoggin Road.

Our Lady of Victories, Pearse Street, Sallynoggin, Dublin.

 

Our Lady of Victories on Pearse Street in Sallynoggin was opened in 1955.

PrIor to this there had been a smaller church building situated in what was

know as the Townland of Honeypark on the western edge of Sallynoggin Road

This smaller church, serving the people of Sallynoggin village was dedicated to Saint Kevin.

The present day church which is on an elevated site with its main entrance

from Pearse Street, Sallynoggin is built in what has become known as the

Italian Renascence revival style and is an impressive building in its own right.

It has a small amount of parking to the front of the church and again an area

for parking some cars within the church grounds.

The church grounds are between the two housing estates of Glenageary

and Sallynoggin, and can be accessed on foot from either.

The local schools are Holy Child Community school which is next door to the

Church and St Kevin’s NS which is just along Pearse Street toward Sallynoggin Road.

There is also a school once known as Technical School Sallynoggin and is now

known as Sallynoggin College of Further Education which is also on Pearse Street.

 

 

 

 

 

Saint Kevin was said to be born in 498. After some religious education at

Kilnamagh in Dublin St Kevin lived in solitude at a number of locations in the

Wicklow hills before finally settling at Glendalough. A group gathered around

him and he established a monastic settlement of which he was to become

the first abbot. There are many tales and legends surrounding his life.

He died in and around 600AD at Glendalough and was canonized in 1903.

St Kevin’s Feast day is celebrated on the 3^rd of June.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pearse Street, Sallynoggin.