The Church of the Three Patrons Rathgar was built following the donation of £2,000 by a wealthy Catholic parishioner. He had been persuaded by the argument that the servants in Rathgar ‘found it a great hardship’ to attend mass in Rathmines due to the short time allocated to them for that purpose. A further £4,650 was raised from the “humbler classes” from their small income and from private fund raising. In the early days it used to be called “the Maids’ Church” or the “Servant’s Church”. The foundation stone was laid on St Patrick’s Day 1860.
The Church was dedicated to the Three Patron saints of Ireland – St. Patrick, St. Bridget, and St. Columba – on the 18th May 1862 as a chapel-of-ease of Rathmines. The primary purpose was to fulfill the spiritual needs of many Catholic domestic servants working in the large homes in the Rathgar area.
Church Micros
"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 ~3500 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."