Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
DON'T MISS...
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Mummified Cat & Rat
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The Treasury
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Strongbow Monument
PRACTICALITIES
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Church of the Holy Trinity
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MAP
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Christ Church Pl
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adult/child €6/2
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9.30am-5pm Mon-Sat & 12.30-2.30pm Sun year-round, longer hrs Jun-Aug
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50, 50A or 56A from Aston Quay, 54 or 54A from Burgh Quay
Early Beginnings
A wooden church was first erected here by Dunán, the first bishop of Dublin, and Sitric,
the Viking king, around 1030, at the southern edge of Dublin's Viking settlement. In 1163,
however, the secular clergy was replaced by a group of Augustinian monks installed by
the patron saint of Dublin, Archbishop Laurence O'Toole. Six years later, Strongbow's
Normans blew into town and got themselves into the church-building business, arranging
with O'Toole (and his successor John Cumin) for the construction of a new stone cathed-
