School: Dunlavin (C.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mary Dowling
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)Egyptian civilisation, but that it was so injured in transfer that the bright hopes have departed.
In Dunlavin the Kings of Leinster were supposed to have a Royal residence here up to Christian times, still it does not seem that any great city remained when the Kings departed. It is probable that some vestige of ancient splendour remained, and it is likely that a people who were cradled at the feet of Kings took their part in the civil and religious functions of the land. We learn that, like the Manor of Ballymore Eustace, Dunlavin, in later days, belonged to the Archbishops of Dublin, and that about 300 years ago the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Bulkeley, an Englishman from Chester, presented the living and property of Dunlavin to his nephew, Dr Bulkely, the Dean of Dublin. It would seem them that Dunlavin, the modern Dunlavin, grew out of that grant and that the foundations of the snug little town of Dunlavin, as we know it to-day, were laid by these Enlishmen. The Bulkeleys married and inter-married(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Norton
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Rosie Daynes
- Gender
- Female
