St. Doologe's
52°20′09″N 6°27′27″W / 52.3359°N 6.4576°W St. Doologe's (Irish: Paróiste Dúlóg[1]), also St. Doologue's,[2] and formerly St. Tullogue's,[3] or St. Euleck's,[3] is a civil parish in the centre of Wexford town in Ireland.[1]
Nature[edit]
St. Doologe's is arguably[n 1] the smallest civil parish in Ireland; the first-edition Ordnance Survey measured its area as 3 acres, 3 roods, and 17 perches (1.561 ha); later shoreline reclamation increased this by the 1930s to 4 acres 13 perches (1.652 ha).[6][2][7] The parish comprises the plots on both sides of King Street Lower, the entire block northwest to Sinnot Place, and a small area southwest of Main Street—Barrack Street, following the line of the old town walls.[8] It is bordered by St. Mary's parish to the northwest, Wexford Harbour to the northeast, and St Michael's of Feagh parish to the south.[8][9]
History[edit]
St. Doologe's Church was built by Norse settlers in the 11th century, and the parish was one of five within the walled town.[10][11] St Doologe is a corruption of Saint Olaf, king of Norway from 1015 to 1028.[12] The church was among those destroyed in the 1649 Sack of Wexford during Cromwell's campaign. The five parishes were united for Church of Ireland purposes in 1732, with St. Doologe's an impropriate cure.[9][13] In 1837, the glebe of the parish measured 1 rood (1,000 m2), occupied by "five small houses".[3] St. Doologe's and the other parishes have remained distinct units for civil administration, though practically obsolete since the 19th century. The 1891 census, the last organised by parish, records a population of 245, living in 39 houses.[7]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ The liberty of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin is treated as a civil parish, with an area of 1.619 acres (0.655 hectares).[4][5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Paróiste Dúlóg/St. Doologe's". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ a b Cunningham, Peter (24 March 1996). "The slobs of Wexford". The Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ a b c Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Wexford Union". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ "25-inch map centred on Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin". Mapviewer. Ordnance Survey Ireland. 1906–1909. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- ^ "V. Area, houses, and population of parliamentary divisions, municipal boroughs, and of towns of 2, 000 inhabitants and upwards, together with the number of electors in each parliamentary division in 1891". Census of Ireland 1891; Part I; Vol. I Leinster; No. 2 County and City of Dublin. Command papers. Vol. C-6515-I. HMSO. 1892.
- ^ Compare layers 'Historic 6" First Edition B&W' and 'Historic 6" Last Edition B&W' in Ordnance Survey Ireland. "National Townland and Historical Map Viewer". ArcGIS Web. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Table VII Area, houses, out-offices and farm steadings, and population, together with the valuation of each parish, townland, and township in 1891; Barony of Forth; Parish of St. Doologe's". 1891 Census of Ireland, Vol.I: Leinster, No.11 County Wexford. Command papers. Vol. C-6515-X. HMSO. 1891. p. 987.
- ^ a b Ordnance Survey of Ireland (17 December 2015) [1882]. "County Wexford: Town of Wexford : sheet XXXVII.16.8". Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) 19th Century Historical Maps. UCD Digital Library. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Wexford (union of parishes)". The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland. Vol. III: N-Z. A. Fullarton and Company. 1846. pp. 538–539.
- ^ "Wexford Town Walls — Conservation Plan" (PDF). 2010. p. 7 §6. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ Wexford Catholic parish (2006). "St. Doologue's, St. Iberius'". Denny Gallagher. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ Comerford, Patrick (23 August 2013). "Celtic Spirituality: Our Heritage?". Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ Carlisle, Nicholas (1810). A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. W. Miller. p. 725. Retrieved 14 November 2014.