Mount Argus

16 Oct 1956

THE original Mount Argus was a tall, red-brick building on a few acres of land through which the River Poddle lazed, owned by a Mrs. Elizabeth Byrne, a widow, and a cousin of Cardinal Cullen. Through the suggestion of Father Matthew Collier, then a curate in Rathmines with the consent of Cardinal Cullen. and the. co-operation of Very Rev. Father Meagher, Parish Priest of Rathmines,  the Passionists established their new retreat there in 1856. The original house and temporary church stood on. what is now the Cemetery for Religious at Mount Argus.

The first Mass was celebrated there on August 1856 by Father Paul Mary Pakenham, born in Dublin in 1821, son of the second Earl of Longford, who had been a Captain in the British Army up to the time of his conversion.

 

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