Identifier: journalofroyalso1899roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ns ofSt. Patricks Gate, at the west end, Avith certain houses that stood thereaton the Otconomy plot, by the Wide Street Commissioners in 1824. The exempt jurisdiction and property of the Dean and Chapter in thestreet traversing the ancient cemetery, and known to us as St. PatricksClose, did not lapse until comparatively few years ago, and has for thatinterval vested in the Corporation of Dublin. It is now sought, under a Bill promoted last session in Parliament byLords Ardilaun and Iveagh, and James Talbot Power, Esq., to establishan open park or city g irden on the north side of the Cathedral. It is ST. PATRICKS DE INSULA, DUBLIN. . 3 proposed by it, inter alia, to restore to the Cathedral its verge assignedby its founder, Archbishop Comj-n, in 1190, held by it for successivecenturies and essential as a foreground to the dignity of this ancient andstately church, which has been rescued, maintained and restored to thecitizens of Dublin in the past thirty yeais by private munifieonfo.
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West Front of St. Patkicks Cathedral.(Maltons View, 1793,) The veritable ancient well of St. Patrick, where baptisms weretraditionally said to have been peiformed by the Saint himself, was, onthe authority of Archbishop TJssher who saw it in his time, enclosed inhouses standing on the north Close. In patricianse ecclesiae claustro, non procul a Campanili, iliumpatrieij. fontem vidimus (intra privatas aedes inclusum nuper-rime et obstructum) ad quern Dublinienses neophytos ab eofuisse baptizatos, juxta civitatem ad Austrum, ex Jocilino jamaudivimus. Britt. Eccl. Antiq. folio 449.—Masons Sistonj. Antiquaries of reverent instinct, and ecclesiologists are liereby warnedof a coming chance of recovery of this famous and sacrosanct well, on therestoration of the ground sometime desecrated as a public street, nonprocul a campanili, and within the area of the houses marked on mymap as in possession of Henry Hunt, or Itotton, in 1750, removed bythe Wide Streets Commission in 1824. 4 ROYAL SOC

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