Molyneux Asylum
| The Molyneux Asylum for Blind Females | |
|---|---|
 Molyneux Church and Asylum, Leeson Park, 1860 | |
| Location | |
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Peter St., later Leeson Park Dublin Ireland | |
| Information | |
| School type | Asylum for blind females |
The Molyneux Asylum for Blind Females was opened in 1815 in Peter Street, Dublin, in what was formerly the residence of Thomas Molyneux (1641-1733), whose sister-in-law, Lucy Domville, had been blind. There was an Anglican church attached to the asylum.[1]
A new home for the asylum, along with a church, was constructed 1860-1862 at Leeson Park. The architect, selected after a competition, was James Rawsom Carroll.[2]
One of the first chaplains to the asylum was Rev. Piers Edmund Butler. Later came Rev. Charles Marley Fleury. Chaplain in the mid-19th century was Rev. James Metge, of Carlow. John Duncan Craig was chaplain from 1873 to 1884.[3] Albert Hughes was chaplain in the 1920s and 1930s.
References
- ↑ Library Ireland
- ↑ The Irish Times, 3 Jan 1881, p. 3
- ↑ Stephen Brown (ed) Ireland in Fiction. Maunsel, Dublin, 1919. p. 71
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