![[St. Peter's Church, Dungloe, County Donegal]](/IIIF/000750000/000740709/vtls000740709_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[St. Peter's Church, Dungloe, County Donegal]
[graphic].
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| In collection: | Tynan Photographic Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[Circa 1954-1960].
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| Notes: | In our catalogue, this photo was originally titled "Unidentified church, Co. Donegal". Research by our Flickr Commons users established that this is St. Peter's Church in Dungloe, County Donegal. Seemingly deconsecrated some time in the early 1980s, and now a local amenity building, Roman Catholic services (and the crucifix between the two windows) were moved to a much newer church nearby. This image was probably captured between 1954 and 1960. Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/40060839392/ Physical description: 1 plastic negative : b&w ; 5.6 x 8.2 cm. more |
| Arrangement: | Item |
New Arrivals Klaxon
At the weekend we promised you something new - and here it is. Introducing the "Denis Tynan" collection of photographs! Taken on plastic negatives and featuring places and people in the 1950s and 60s, we feel that this will spice your inerest and we will concentrate on them for this week. Today's image of a church and churchyard in Co. Donegal even has a lady apparently kneeling in prayer at a grave. Where is it I wonder?
We didn't have to wonder long. Rory_Sherlock was quick to identify this as St. Peter's Church in Dungloe, County Donegal. Seemingly deconsecrated some time in the early 1980s, and now a local amenity building, Roman Catholic services (and the crucifix we see between the two windows) were moved to a much newer church/chapel close by. The general consensus is that this image was probably captured in the latter-half of the 1950-1960 range we have for the Tynan collection....
Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923 - 2010
Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1950-1960. Possibly after c.1954 (grotto)
NLI Ref: NPA TYN134
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Tynan Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland, Ireland, Denis Tynan, Donegal, Church, Graveyard, Churchyard, Co. Donegal, tombstones, crosses, walls, mourner, prayer, Ulster, County Donegal, Dungloe, St Peter's, Ionad Teampeall Chróine, Chapel Street, Dunglow, Graves, Catholic church, St. Peter's RC, Location identified, Dungloe Library, Library, Peter Grant, Crucifix
Comments
domenico milella
Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
Posted: 05.02.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
This looks like the same church after renovations and tweaks - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000740788/HierarchyTree
Posted: 05.02.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Or maybe not ... !
Posted: 05.02.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
NLI blog about Denis Tynan (1923-2010) - blog.nli.ie/index.php/2015/01/29/the-denis-tynan-collecti...
Posted: 05.02.2018
Rory_Sherlock
Dungloe: formerly, St Peter's, now Ionad Teampeall Chróine
maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,577056,911147,11,9
www.google.ie/maps/@54.9479217,-8.3594079,3a,60y,122.66h,...
www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...
Posted: 05.02.2018
robinparkes
There are two ladies in the photo.
Posted: 05.02.2018
DannyM8
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/139877639@N08] Well done.
Posted: 05.02.2018
sam2cents
Very interesting, and kind of supernatural-looking too, with the two apparitions. I'm really impressed with the stonework on the shrine.
Posted: 05.02.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Flickr is sometimes amazing - in 2011 via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/61455637@N05/]
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/61455637@N05/5771757717/]
Posted: 05.02.2018
guliolopez
Spot on [https://www.flickr.com/photos/139877639@N08]. Interesting outdoor crucifix. Perhaps not surprising it was removed/replaced.
Posted: 05.02.2018
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Brilliant [https://www.flickr.com/photos/139877639@N08] - Well done. I have updated the map.
Thanks also [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] for finding the modern Flickr view. Interesting that the hut (for papers?) has been replaced with what looks like an outdoor smoking enclosure. I guess indicative of changing use. And times.
Looking again at the Tynan image, it looks like there may be two ladies in the churchyard - either tending to or praying at graves. I wonder if anyone from Dungloe could identify them?
Posted: 05.02.2018
John Spooner
"A group of boys who were among the two hundred children who received the Sacrement at St Peter's Church Dunglow" in a full-page confirmation special in the Derry Journal - Friday 26 May 1950
I guess they are in their seventies now.
I guess they are in their seventies now.Posted: 05.02.2018
Carol Maddock
The sculptor (is that still the right term if it's wood we're talking about?) of the crucifix was Peter Grant of Cabra Road in Dublin. In the Munster Express, 21 July 1950, there's a list of works designed and executed by Peter Grant. It includes a "life-size Crucifix, carved in wood, St. Peter's Church, Dungloe, Co. Donegal".
Posted: 05.02.2018
John Spooner
I assume the shrine at the far end of the building is the one blessed on Sunday 18th September 1955. Derry Journal - Friday 23 September 1955:
In the presence of a large congregation, Rev. J. Kerr, C.C., solemnly blessed the new shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes at the front of St. Peter's Church Dungloe, on Sunday. The statues are the work of Messrs. Deigini, of Dublin, with the figures of OurLady and St. Bernadette life-size. The grotto is constructed of Rosses granite.
Posted: 05.02.2018
O Mac
I would suggest the photograph was taken in 1954 or after as 1954 was Marian year and a lot of those Holy Mary grottos sprung up around the country to mark the occasion.
Posted: 05.02.2018
Bernard Healy
The Crucifix has been moved to the new church - it's visible in the church grounds www.google.ie/maps/@54.9490838,-8.3550311,3a,60y,351.39h,...
Posted: 05.02.2018
Inverarra
A photo full of character. Thanks.
Posted: 05.02.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
So where is Mr Tynan's other unidentified church ?
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000740788/HierarchyTree
Please !
Posted: 05.02.2018
Rory_Sherlock
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] That's St Mary's Church, Kincasslagh:
www.kincasslagh.ie/
A nice T-shaped church like St Peter's in Dungloe, though for some reason St Mary's doesn't appear on the NIAH. No 25" map available for the area either. While the local website says it was built in 1856, there was clearly a T-shaped church on the site at an earlier date as one does appear on the mid-1800s 6" map:
maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,574361,919070,11,7
www.google.ie/maps/@55.0188315,-8.4003176,3a,75y,260.64h,...
There seems to be a number of large T-shaped churches in Donegal, each with an interesting projection behind the altar - St Mary's has a nice twin-gabled sacristy with a chimney on each gable which St Peter's has two levels - hard to see how the small windows on two levels work with the large window in the eastern gable.
Posted: 05.02.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/139877639@N08] Brilliant - thank you! Your 'streetview' is fantastic in a 360° whirl around.
Posted: 06.02.2018
