Donnybrook church, Co.Dublin

References:

DONNYBROOK in [Ball, vol.2, 1903]
"Donnybrook Graveyard" in [Flanagan, 1996].
Sources yet to be consulted:
- A History of Donnybrook Graveyard, Danny Parkinson.
- For tombstone inscriptions and burials in Donnybrook see:
  - [Blacker, pp. 124-38, 152-7, 271-308, 342-56]
- Fitzwilliam chapel at Donnybrook described in:
  - [Blacker, p.165]
  - Austin Cooper's Note Book, 1780

The outside wall of Donnybrook graveyard, in The Crescent (the laneway beside it).
Photo 1999.

The old Donnybrook church, St.Mary's, dated from the 12th cent.,
there was a Fitzwilliam chapel, in which the Fitzwilliam tomb dated from around death of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam, Kt 1595,
from at least 1615 on (and probably earlier), Donnybrook church was Protestant, though the Catholic Fitzwilliams continued to be buried there, in the old Fitzwilliam tomb, 2nd Viscount 1667 and 3rd Viscount 1675,
and, after they did conform to the established church, the 6th Viscount 1776,
the old church at Donnybrook was replaced in 1827 by the new Protestant church, also called St.Mary's, at the corner of Simmonscourt Rd and Anglesea Rd.

Nothing remains of the old Donnybrook church now except a piece of wall, and the graves around, in the heart of Donnybrook village.
Apparently the Fitzwilliam tomb does not survive [Flanagan, 1996].

Location of Donnybrook graveyard (green area inside The Crescent).
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There are some other Donnybrooks named after this one.

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