Writing in 1814 the Rev. E. Cupples, Vicar of Glenavy, stated: “The Roman Catholic Chapel is a neat, modern building, 60 feet long by 30 feet wide. The Rev. Patrick Blaney is the Parish Priest. This Chapel was built about fifteen years ago by subscription, to which the Marquess of Hertford and the Protestants of the union liberally contributed".
"In 1868 a new church dedicated to St. Joseph, was erected on the old site by the Rev. George Pye. It is of black stone, relieved by the light colours of the cut stone round the windows and doors. It has an arched ceiling and a small bell tower surmounted by a spire which rises from the south-western angle of the nave, and in it is a sweet toned bell, weight 10 cwt. The altar window is tracerised, the western gable is pierced by five lancets. A small gallery for the choir occupies the western end of the church. The Rev. George Pye also built a handsome parochial house”.
St. Joseph’s can be reached by taking the Glen Road out of Glenavy.
The cache is a magnetic nano, please bring your own pen, and an implement for getting the log out might help too.
sadexploration is no longer including caches in N. Ireland in his UK Church Micro series but the Church Micro IE series is open to everyone; if you have a church you would like to place a cache at then please contact THE_Chris through Geocaching.com. This is to keep track of the numbers of the churches and give you the general format for the cache page. In the UK there are ~1500 caches in the series so we have some catching up to do! Also, if you currently have a published cache at a church that you would like to include in the series, get in contact and we can add it.