St Michaels Church Sneem Ireland
by Cindy Murphy - NightVisions
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St Michaels Church Sneem Ireland
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Cindy Murphy - NightVisions
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Day 7, St. Michael's Church in Sneem. On July 27th 1865, the then Bishop of Kerry, David Moriarty performed the opening ceremony of the present church and confirmed 271 children on the same day. Some 50 or 60 years earlier a very small church, with only a mud floor and no pews had been built on the present site. It was totally inadequate to cater for the congregation of that time. Money was extremely hard to raise in Sneem in those days. By a stroke of good fortune, however, the 3rd Earl of Dunraven, who had converted to Catholicism and had a holiday home in nearby Garnish Island, felt that Sneem should have a “fitting place for divine worship” and duly provided the funding img139 1617
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