School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Girls) (roll number 16333)
- Location:
- Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Caitlín Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0784, Page 174
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- "Hacketstown"
Hacketstown is a well-wooded hilly district about a mile from Skerries. It contains an old mansion "Hacketstown House" which was at one time occupied as a viceregal lodge by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
There was a "mass-house" at Hacketstown which had its own priest. Accounts are found of it in a "Government Order" of the House of Lords 1731. A silver chalice still extant was presented to the chapel in 1728 by R. Arthur and his wife, Helen. It bears this inscription -
"Pray for the souls of Colonel R. Arthur and his wife, Helen, who gave this chalice to the chapel of Hacketstown in the Parish of Lusk 1728".
The official name for the Parish was "Parish of Holmpatrick" but it had not parochial independence being subject to that of Lusk.
Canon Wm. McNally was first Parish Priest of Holmpatrick and was appointed in 1730.
Hacketstown Chapel was abandoned in 1795 and a thatched chapel erected in Skerries town.
Later it was replaced by the building in Church Street started in 1823 by Rev. Fr. Foster who was Parish Priest from 1820.
