If you would like to take a look inside try the side entrance on the left as the main doors may be locked.
At the given co-ordinates you will be in front of granite stone inscribed with
“The Spiritans welcome you to Kimmage Manor”.
There you will see a bible quotation from John 20:21-22.
Count the number of letters within the quotation marks. Call this AB
Count the number of consonants within the quotation marks. Call this CD
The final co-ordinates are in the format 53 º 18.XXX 006 º 18.XXX
N 53º 18. (A+C) X 73
W 006º 18. (B+D+D) X 181
The final location is a very short walk away.
Stealth will be required. Please be wary of passing muggles!
Please bring your own pen. A tweezers might be handy
Happy hunting.
****************Well done to Gerpod1 who was the FTF***************
The 15a bus stops on the Whitehall Road near Kimmage Manor
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 ~3,600 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
History of Kimmage Mannor
Kimmage Manor dates back to 1641 when all the lands of Kimmage, Terenure and Milltown were in the hands of Peter Barnewall. At that time there was a castle in good repair on the lands of Kimmage. There were various owners and tenants through the years Rocque’s map from the mid eighteenth century shows extensive buildings on the location of the present Manor House.
In 1829 Frederick Shaw with his wife and family came to live in Kimmage. They occupied an ‘L’ shaped section of the present Manor building facing the present Mission House. This ‘L’ shaped section is at least 250 years old. Within two years of their arrival the Shaw family had constructed a two storey addition to the south side of the ‘L’ shaped existing building and more than doubled their floor area. The front entrance, entrance hall, reception area and staircase were built. These rooms are approximately one hundred and seventy five years old. The Shaw family had remodelled Kimmage House until it acquired its unique Tudor style with triangular gables, spiral turrets and tall chimneys and false window.
Sir Frederick Shaw lived here until his death in 1876. His family moved to Bushy Park and Kimmage House was leased to various tenants. In 1898 Mrs Mary Ida Clayton leased the house and lands in perpetuity and came to live in the house with her two sons. From Mrs Clayton the Spiritans acquired the property on the 7th June 1911, which by that time had become known as ‘Kimmage Manor’. Immediately it was agreed that it would be called ‘Holy Ghost Missionary College, Kimmage, Dublin’.
Source http://www.kimmagemanor.ie/ Manor History – Fr P Ryan CSSp
The church is open during Mass times: weekdays (Monday to Saturday) at 10.00am, on Saturday evenings (for the Vigil mass) at 6p.m, on Sunday mornings at 10.00 am and 11.30 am. On holy days there are masses at 10.00am and 7.30 pm.