Parish Of Tully

Parish Of Tully

(Formerly called Tolach na n-Escop, the Hill of the Bishops).

This parish is shown on the Down Survey Map, made in 1657, as consisting. of the townlands of Loughenstowne, Brenanstowne, Carrickmaine and Glanamuck, and Leperstowne.

Loughenstowne is now represented by the townland of Laughanstown, and included apparently the Glebe of Rathmichael.

Brenanstowne is represented by Brenanstown.

Carrickmaine and Glanamuck is representd by Carrickmines *(i.e., *Carraig-maighin, the Little Plain of Rocks) Great, Tiknick *(i.e., *Tigh Cnuic, the House on the Hill), Kingston, Glenamuck *(i.e., *Glean na muc, the valley of the pigs) North and South, Jamestown, Ballyogan, Carrickmines Little, and Kerryrnount.

Leperstowne is represented by Leopardstown and Carmanhall.

The townlands of Murphystown and Blackthorn, now included in Tully Parish, are shown on the Down Survey as in Taney parish, under the name of Moltanstowne.

The parish contains the following objects of archaeological interest - Cromlech, near Brenanstown; ruined Church of Tully, and remains of Castles of Carrickmines and Murphystown.

Carrickmines Castle

A fragment of an ancient building, now forming the end wall of a piggery, is to be found in a farmyard not far from the railway station of Carrickmines, on the right-hand side of the road leading to Golden Ball. It is of massive proportions, and contains a light or window.

This fragment is all that remains of a strongly-fortified castle, which was erected at Carrickmines, after the English Conquest, to protect the south marches of the City of Dublin. These, owing to Carrickmines being the most convenient route for the Irish tribes in making their raids, were exposed at that point to much danger, and by the aid of the castle the marauders were often successfully opposed before they descended on the cultivated lands of Kill-of-the-Grange and Monkstown.

The castle was garrisoned by a branch of the Walsh family, to which the lands of Carrickmines, or the Little Plain of Rocks, had been given, and its occupants combined in a remarkable degree the aptitude for martial and for agricultural pursuits necessary to make them successful colonists.

At first they were not able to withstand alone the attacks of the enemy from the mountains, and, in the 14th century, troops were despatched from time to time to their assistance.

Thus there were stationed at Carrickmines, in 1360, a troop of light horsemen, under the leadership of Sir John Bermingham; in 1375, a large force, under the command of a famous ecclesiastic, John Colton, then Dean of St. Patrick’s and Treasurer of Ireland, and afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, who stayed at Carrickmines on one occasion for three days, and on another for a month; and, in 1388, forty mounted archers, for whose support a contribution was levied from the distant lands of Fingal.

But in the beginning of the 15th century, the Walshes had established a reputation for prowess in the field which kept the tribes in more awe, and allowed the Walshes to devote more attention to the cultivation of their lands.

Henry Walsh, who was then their captain, was, in 1441, allowed by the Crown ten marks-a large sum in those days-for protecting the liegemen, and probably it was by him that the Castle of Carrickmines was erected in the form in which it stood for the next two centuries.

The lands of Carrickmines, which were held direct from the Crown by military service, had been conveyed to his grandfather, Henry, son of Adam Walsh, by John and David Walsh, and had come subsequently into the possession of his father, William Walsh, who, in 1407, was residing on part of them called Symondstown. Henry Walsh had succeeded to the lands in 1420, and, as he was then a minor, portion of his property was committed to an ecclesiastic, Richard Northorp, by name, who was exempted from rendering any account with respect to it during the minority.

The 16th century found the Walshes in occupation, either as tenants or owners, of a very wide extent of country, and they had become one of the most important families on the southern side of Dublin. The owners of the lands of Carrickmines, on which there was near the castle a hamlet called Ballinrow, and a water mill (whose site is marked on the Ordnance map), held also the lands of Kilpool and Old Court, in the County Wicklow, and were generally named amongst the officers responsible for the muster of the militia.

Henry Walsh had died in 1481, and amongst his successors in the occupation of the castle we find Edmund Walsh, who, in 1519, was involved in litigation with the Priory of the Holy Trinity as to adjacent lands; William, son of Theobald Walsh, who married a daughter of the house of Fitzwilliam, and died in 1572; Richard, son of William Walsh, who married one of the Eustaces, and died in 1580; Theobald, son of Richard Walsh, who died in 1593; and Richard, son, of Theobald Walsh. Richard Walsh was a minor at the time of his father’s death, and while his property was in the custody of Peter Barnewall, his guardian, the lands of Carrickmines were completely devastated by Irish marauders, who carried off “the prey of the town,” notwithstanding the presence of a troop of horse, which was then stationed there.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the Walshes were described as a large and ancient stock, and as men of note in the metropolitan county, which was then “rich and plenteous in corn and cattle, and inhabited by a people of stately port and garb.” The Castle of Carrickmines was surrounded by an orchard and garden, and, so far as was possible, its lands had been subjected to the plough.

But before the middle of that century the Walshes’ prosperity was at an end, and they were reduced to the position of wanderers on the earth. The part taken by the owner of Carrickmines, in the Rebellion of 1641, is not clear, but as a family the Walshes threw themselves with ardour on the Irish side, and proved that they had become at least as Irish as the Irish themselves.

Whether with or without the consent of the owner, Carrickmines became the centre of disaffection in the southern part of the County Dublin, and the Walshes figure prominently in the depositions made by those who suffered losses during that dreadful winter. Richard Walsh, who had succeeded, in 1593, to Carrickmines, is stated in an inquisition to have died in 1620, but, according to the pedigree of a noble Austrian family, the Counts von Wallis, who claim descent from his second son, he did not die until some years later.

His eldest son, Theobald, was, however, living, in 1630, in Carrickmines Castle. A payment was then made to him, on the order of a foreigner, by the Earl of Cork, and, in a report on the diocese of Dublin it is mentioned that he was maintaining at that time in the castle a priest and a friar, “to celebrate Mass and execute their functions.” But he cannot have been in it when its overthrow came, as he survived the Rebellion, and acted as a captain in the Confederates’ army.

During the whole winter after the Rebellion the County Dublin, south of the city, was in the hands of the rebels. Their defeat, in February, 1642, at Dean’s Grange, gave them, no doubt, a check, and they fell back upon Carrickmines Castle, which they had prepared to stand a siege.

Although the cannon, which had been brought from Bullock, appears to have been soon sent back, the castle was not left without arms, and, as events proved, was capable of affording very effective resistance.

In it the main body of the rebels were assembled on a Saturday morning, at the end of March, when scouts came running in to tell them that troops were approaching, and before long they saw some horse drawing near.

The horse were few in number and the rebels treated them with scorn and contempt. But the rebels did not take into account that the troops were commanded by one of the best officers in the English army, Sir Simon Harcourt, an ancestor of the well-known statesman of the present day, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, who had just returned from Munster, where he had displayed extraordinary energy in reducing the country to obedience.

Harcourt’s high spirit could ill bear the insolent demeanour of the defenders, but he was a prudent officer, and saw from the great strength of the castle that he could not successfully assail it with his small force. He, therefore, restrained himself until reinforcements arrived, to the number of 800 foot and sufficient horse to complete a troop of 250, and as it was then too late to commence operations, he placed a cordon round the castle, and guarded it all night.

During the darkness the defenders lighted a fire on the roof of the castle, which was answered by others from the hills, and Harcourt becoming alarmed, sent in to the authorities for further assistance. Meantime, the defenders made a vigorous attempt to break through the cordon, and kept up a brisk musket fire from the castle. By means of it they inflicted loss on the besiegers and terminated the gallant Harcourt’s career.

He had sought cover behind a small cottage, but stood up for a moment to issue some command to the soldiers, and, on being perceived by one of the defenders, who had already done great execution amongst the besiegers, was shot through the breast. He was carried off the field alive, but died next day at Lord Fitzwilliam’s Castle, at Merrion.

An additional 400 men had arrived, with two cannon, and Lieutenant-Colonel Gibson, who now took command, ordered a vigorous bombardment of the castle. The troops were roused to redoubled vigour by the loss of Harcourt, who was much beloved, and when an entry into the castle was secured, they rushed in, headed by Lieutenant Robert Hammond, afterwards famous as Governor of Carisbrooke Castle during the detention of Charles I. in the Isle of Wight, and fell upon the defenders with great fury.

Fearful slaughter ensued on that Sunday evening in the peaceful valley of Carrickmines. All who were in the castle, men, women, and children, estimated to be 300 persons, were put to the sword, and the castle was blown up and levelled with the ground. The loss of the besiegers is said to have been only seven killed and nine wounded, but it included, besides Harcourt, one officer, Lieutenant Richard Cooke, killed, and another, Sergeant-Major Berry, mortally wounded. The resistance offered by the defenders to what was the flower of the English army in Ireland is very remarkable; but a statement made in the Aphorismical Discovery, that the castle was surrendered and not taken, does not appear to be well founded.

After the Restoration the property of the Walshes, at Carrickmines, was awarded by the Commissioners of Settlement to the Earl of Meath, and was subsequently assigned by him to Sir Joshua Allen, of Stillorgan, whose representative, the Earl of Carysfort, is now lord of the soil.

The population during the Commonwealth was returned as five English and fifty-four Irish, and five substantial houses and twenty-one cottages were erected on the lands. The adjoining lands of Glenamuck, which belonged also to the Walshes, and had been assigned to one Roger Jones, were wholly inhabited by Irish.

In the middle of the 18th century the principal inhabitants of Carrickmines wore Mr. Christopher Smalley and Mr. John Gravel. It was then acquiring a reputation as a health resort and, in the succeeding years, was much frequented by persons affected with pulmonary complaints, for whose accommodation lodgings were provided.

Whey made from goats’ milk was then the remedy recommended for consumption and kindred diseases; and the Dublin physicians, who, in the early part of the 18th century, sent their patients to the mountains of Mourne for the purpose of drinking it, found that, in addition to being more accessible, Carrickmines, where goats abounded, had an equally dry soil and more southern aspect.

Many deaths are announced in the obituary columns of the newspapers of that day as taking place at Carrickmines, including, in 1760, the wife of Anthony Robinson, the Revenue Officer of Bullock, and a daughter of Thomas Morgan, sometime Recorder of Dublin; in 1761, John Payne, “an eminent livery lace weaver”; in 1762, a daughter of Alderman Crampton; in 1772, George Carey, of Redcastle, “a gentleman of unbounded charity”; in 1773, the Rev. Henry Wright, formerly curate of Monkstown; and, in 1780, Samuel Muiphy, Doctor of Music, and a vicar-choral of St. Patrick’s and Christ Church Cathedrals, names which indicate the universal belief at that time in the virtues of the air and treatment.

Laughanstown

These lands, which lie between Carrickmines and Loughlinstown, were originally known under the denomination of Tully, and were given, before the English Conquest, by Sigrahre, son of Thorkil, to the Priory of The Holy Trinity. Amongst their occupants from the fourteenth to the 17th century, we find the family of Macnebury, of Ashpoll, or Archbold, whose members were suspected of complicity in the murder of the owner of Bullock, and took part in the attack on that place, and of Crehall, in whose time a lease of the lands was given, probably for some legal purpose, to Thomas Smith, a Fellow of Trinity College.

After the Restoration the lands, which had been seized by the Parliament, and leased to Dame Sara Reynolds, were recovered, with those of Killiney, by Dr. Lightburne, and were subsequently held by the same lessees. There was at the time of the Restoration on the lands a good thatched castle, which was occupied by Edward Buller, whose tomb is the oldest in Stillorgan Churchyard, (the Tombstone in Stillorgan Churchyard bears the following inscription :- “Here under lieth the body of Edward Buller, who departed this life ye 1st of April, 16 [91], his wife, Jane Buller, alias Ferrar, caused this stone to be laid here for them and their posterity.”) and five cottages, inhabited by nineteen residents, of whom five were of English and fourteen of Irish extraction.

At the close of the 18th century, in 1795, the lands of Laughanstown, then held by the tenants of Brenanstown, the Mercer family, were selected as the site of the great camp, which enters so largely into the history of the Rebellion of 1798, and which is connected with the fate of the brother Sheares.

It extended over 120 acres, and accommodated as many as 4,000 soldiers at the same time. The sight which it presented was until then without parallel in Ireland, and the mingling of social life with the panoply of war struck a contemporary writer as no less grotesque than novel.

The camp was the scene of constant gaiety. The Lord Lieutenant the Earl Camden, on going down to review the troops, found a breakfast the most agreeable part of the proceedings; Lord Cloncurry mentions the hospitality of the officers; and a gentleman who went down to see military evolutions, found that a ball, in a room specially built for dancing, had been substituted.

Brennanstown

The lands of Brenanstown contain a cromlech, remarkable for its perfect condition and the size of its roof rock, which is estimated to weigh sixty tons. It stands not far from the village of Cabinteely, in the lands of Glendruid.

This monument indicates the existence of earlier owners, but the first mention of the lands under their present name is in the 14th century, when they belonged to the Priory of the Holy Trinity, and were included in the manor of Kill-of-the-Grange. At the beginning of that century they were held by Maurice Howell, a leader of the militia and large farmer, but towards the close a fortified house was built upon them, and they were leased to one of the Walshes, who was Chaplain of Tully Church.

After the dissolution of the Priory the lands, which probably had remained in the occupation of the Walsh family from the 14th century, were held under the Chapter of the Cathedral, in 1555, by the owner of Carrickmines, William Walsh, and, in 1571, by Owen Walsh. It was then obligatory on the tenants to bring the tithe corn to a place called “the holy stood,” to mow a meadow belonging to the Cathedral, and to plant twenty oak or ash trees each year.

At the beginning of the 17th century, William Rochfort - doubtless, one of the Rochforts, of Kilbogget - through his marriage to a daughter of the house of Walsh, became tenant, as did subsequently Thomas Wolverston, a younger son of the owner of Stillorgan, on his marriage to Rochfort’s second wife.

During the Commonwealth the lands were treated as forfeit and were leased by the Parliament to Valentine Wood, one of the officers who had been stationed at Bullock.

The population was returned as four English and fourteen Irish, inhabiting ten house and in addition to the castle, which had only a thatched roof, there was a mill for cleaning wool and one for grinding corn.

After the Restoration the lands, which were recovered by Dr. Lightburne together with the tithes enjoyed by the Fagans of Bullock, under an old lease, for the Cathedral, were held by the same lessees as Killiney. The castle was for a time in the hands of the Dean of Christ Church, but, in 1683, was occupied by a family called Powell.

Early in the 18th century the castle was modernised, an was the residence for a few years before his death of an eminent Dublin physician, Dr. Francis Le Hunte who retired from practice on succeeding, through the death of his brother, to the family estates in Wexford. The doctor is said to have been distinguished for his extensive charities, benevolence, and affability, and Mozeen, in “An Invitation to Dr. Le Hunte’s” describes Brenanstown as the home of every virtue and delight. After Dr. Le Hunte’s death, which took place in 1750, Brenanstown was taken by Captain Luke Mercer, well known in his day as the commander of the Revenue cruisers *The Thompson *and *The Besborough. *He had been successful in seizing an enormous quantity of contraband goods, and before taking Brenanstown, had been advanced to a higher position under the Revenue Board. He was a man of large means, and converted Brenanstown into one of the handsomest seats in the count improving the house, and laying out gardens, which became famous for their early produce. On his death, in 1781, his property passed to his brother’s son and daughter, who had married, at Brenannstown, Hugh, afterwards Viscount Carleton, and Chief Justice the Common Pleas, and the house was occupied subsequently by amongst others Mr. John Purdon and Major Parker.

Kerrymount

These** lands, which were known as Kiltekerry, or Keatingsland, and on which there was a primitive church, were originally the property of St. ‘Patrick’s Cathedral, but were given to the Priory of the Holy Trinity at the time the church of Kill-of-the-Grange was exchanged for that of Ballymore. They were held under the Priory, with other lands, known as Priorsland, and the Common of Dromin, by the tenants of Brenanstown, until the beginning of the 17th century, when they were in the occupation of the owner of Stillorgan, William Wolverston. After the Restoration they were leased to the Earl of Meath, and were subsequently assigned by him to Sir Joshua Allen, the owner of Carrickmines and of Stillorgan. In the latter part of the 18th century, Sir William Mayne, who took the title of Baron Newhaven of Carrickmines, on being created a peer, held them in right of his wife, a daughter of the second Viscount Allen.**

Murphystown

Some small remains of a castle are still to be seen in the townland of Murphystown, within the grounds of Glencairn, the seat of the late Right Hon. Mr. Justice Murphy, and, in the 18th century, as the picture shows, ruins of much greater size were visible.

The modern townland of Murphystown originally formed portion of widely-extending lands called Ballyogan, which were in the possession of the Priory of the Holy Trinity shortly after the English Conquest. Part of these lands was subsequently transferred to the Cathedral of St. Patrick, and the remainder retained by the Priory was divided into two portions, represented by the townlands of Murphystown and Ballyogan.

The lands comprised in the townland of Murphystown, which had been probably leased, in 1230, to the tenant of the adjoining lands of Leopardstown, Geoffrey Tyrrel, were, in 1326, held by a relative of the tenant of Brenanstown, Peter Howell, a frequent guest at the Prior’s table, and the lands comprised in the townland of Ballyogan, by Robert son of Stephen and Gilbert Begg.

Towards the end of that century these lands were leased, under the names of Ballymorthan and Farnecost, to Sir John Cruise, the owner of Stillorgan, and, in the 16th century, were held by the Harolds, who occupied a great tract of land round the Dublin Mountains, and are commemorated in the name Harold’s Cross; amongst the tenants being, in 1592, Walter Harold, whose children succeeded to the farm of Kill-of-the-Grange.

In the early part of the 17th century the Wolverstons, of Stillorgan, were in possession of the lands., and, under the Commonwealth, John Davis and seventeen other persons were resident in Murphystown.

After the Restoration Murphystown and Ballyogan were recovered, with its other adjacent property, for the Cathedral, by Dr. Lightburne and were subsequently held by the lessees of Tipperstown.

Leopardstown.

These lands, now forming the handsome demesne of Leopardstown Park, the seat of Mr. James Talbot Power, D.L.**, **and the racecourse, belonging to the Leopardstown Club, were known, until the 18th century, when their name assumed its present meaningless form, as Leperstown.

This designation the lands derived from their owner in mediaeval times - the Leper Hospital of St. Stephen-an institution whose site is now occupied by Mercer’s Hospital, in Dublin. Of its foundation and original constitution nothing has been ascertained, but it seems to have been under the management of a religious order, which selected the care of those afflicted with this’ loathsome disease as its special mission.

The hospital is first mentioned in connection with the lands in 1230, when “the master and lepers of the house of St. Stephen, at Dublin,” agreed to accept a surrender of them from Geoffry Tyrrel and his wife Sara. It probably was indebted to the family or former husband of Sara for the lands, then called Balygyregan, and it was agreed that she and her husband should occupy part of them adjacent to Kilmacud during their lives, and that afterwards this portion should be let to their children, and to a son of Sara’s by her first marriage.

A church, known as the Church of St. Stephen, was established at Leperstown during the next century, and the tithes of the lands, which were in possession of Ellena Mocton, a great benefactress of the hospital, and probably a descendant of the original grantor of Leperstown, were, in 1378, assigned to the hospital.

It has been suggested that Lepers town was the site of an auxiliary home for the lepers”, but documentary evidence does not corroborate this theory.

In 1400 Simon Hacket was in occupation of the lands, in 1571 Robert Walsh, and a few years later, James Wolverston, who became the owner of Stillorgan.

The boundaries of the lands proved a fruitful source of litigation between the hospital and the Priory of the Holy Trinity, as owners of Tipperstown. In 1391 the Priory recovered, in a Court of Assize, held at Drogheda, from Philip, the rector of Leperstown, part of the lands of Tipperstown, and, in 1508, in a suit with John English, custos of the lepers, and a canon of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Prior established his right to retain it.

At the close of the 16th century Leperstown, which had been leased by the Corporation of Dublin, as guardian of the property of the Leper Hospital, to the Right Hon. Jacques Wingfield, the owner of Stillorgan, was seized by the Crown and given to Sir Anthony St. Leger.

But the Corporation did not recognise the right of the Crown, and with the custos of the hospital, Lancelot Money, who was a son of Mrs. Garvey, the tenant of Kill-of-the-Grange, and one of the first Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, leased the premises to Alderman William Gough.

Gough seems to have entered into an agreement with Sir Anthony St. Leger as to their purchase, and, in 1605, the Corporation issued a new lease to one of their own body, Sir John Tyrrell, sometime Mayor of Dublin, on condition that he recovered the lands from Gough’s representatives. In this Tyrrell appears to have been unsuccessful, and, in 1623, Patrick Gough, who had in the previous year litigation about the boundaries with the Cathedral of Christ Church, leased the lands to Christopher Wolverston, brother of the owner of Stillorgan, and tenant of the farm of Kill-of-the-Grange.

Subsequently George Wolverston, the eldest son of the owner of Stillorgan, came to reside at Leperstown, on his marriage to a daughter of the reigning Kavanagh of Borris, who was, through her mother, a granddaughter of Viscount Mountgarret. There were then on the lands a castle and two substantial houses but no trace of them or of the chapel of Leperstown, which was served, in 1641, by the Rev. Randolph Foxwist and in 1646 by the Rev. Thomas Walworth, is now to be found.

George Wolverston died prematurely in 1634, but his family continued to. occupy the lands, and soon after the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1652, Mrs. Wolverston was tried before a court-martial for giving shelter at Leperstown to a girl named Mabel Archbold, a family to which the Wolverstons were related, who was hanged as a spy, and for allowing cattle which had been stolen from an inhabitant of Newcastle to graze on her lands.

She was amongst those ordered off to Connaught, but was given an extension of time for her departure, on the ground of bad weather, and possibly managed to evade the order altogether, as in 1659 her only son James, and in 1664 she herself was returned as resident at Leperstown. There was then a total population on the lands of twelve English and nine Irish.

After the Restoration, the lands of Leperstown were restored, with those of Stillorgan, to James Wolverston, and during part of the 18th century were in the occupation of a farmer called Carty, who took part in a competition, under the auspices of the Dublin Society, for wheat grown in the County Dublin.

Not long before the Union Leperstown came into the possession of Colonel Charles Henry Coote, M.P.,** **for Maryborough, who built the present house and laid out the grounds. He succeeded in 1802, on the death of his kinsman, the last Earl of Mountrath, to the barony of Castlecoote, and as his endowment of schools in the neighbourhood proves, was a man of large and generous mind. Leopardstown in his time was considered, as it still remains, one of the most beautiful seats in the County Dublin, and the farm and garden, which provided sheep “of the real Wicklow breed,” and fruit and vegetables for the use of George IV., while he lay in his yacht in Kingstown Harbour, were noted for the luxuriance and excellence of their products.

Ecclesiastical History

The ruined church of Tully lies not far from the village of Cabinteely. All that is now to be seen is the remains of the chancel, which is of Anglo-Norman construction, and contains a choir arch and round-headed window, but probably this chancel was attached to an early Celtic church, which formed the nave.

Near the ruins are two crosses; one of them, which stands on the road, is a cross radiating from a circle, the other, which stands in an adjacent field. is of the ordinary form, and bears in relief the figure of a female. probably a representation of St. Bridget, the patron saint of the church. In the churchyard two very early tombstones have been discovered; one is inscribed with three groups of well-defined rings, and resembles in shape a cross, and the other is inscribed with a rudely-carved cross, surrounded by a circle.

The antiquity of Tully as the site of a place of worship is indicated by an ancient legend, which recounts how eight holy men, or chorepiscopi who came from the Hill of the Bishops, as Tully was anciently called, to visit St Bridget, in the County Kildare, were miraculously provided with refreshment, and it is not improbable that Tully was in Celtic times, the site of a monastery. The ruined church has been stated to be of Danish origin, and although Dr. Todd believed the statement to be devoid of foundation, the fact that the lands of Tully were given to the Priory by a Scandinavian owner, affords some ground for such a conjecture. The church was dedicated to St Bridget, and it is possible that in its dedication and the visit of the holy men of Tully to the saint some connection may be found.

After the English Conquest Tully was assigned to the Priory of the Holy Trinity, and was attached to the mother church of Kill-of-the-Grange.

In the 14th century the church of Tully was a centre of religious activity; it was served by a resident chaplain, and possessed a clerk.

After the dissolution of the religious houses it was probably but little used. At the beginning of the 17th century there was not a single Protestant in the parish, and the church, owing to recent storms, was in a ruinous condition.

The parish was, in 1615, in charge of the curate of Kill-of-the-Grange and Dalkey, the Rev. Owen Ellis, and later on in that of the vicar of Bray, the Rev. Simon Swayne. Under the latter it was served, in 1646, by his curate, the Rev. Thomas Walworth, who also held the curacy of Leperstown, and who, though the tithes of the parish were worth £64 a year, only received the miserable stipend of £5.

Under the Commonwealth Godfrey Daniel, of Tully, was appointed by the Parliament, at a salary of £30 a year, as preacher and catechiser to the Irish in the neighbourhood, but his efforts bore little fruit. After the Restoration the church fell more and more into ruin, and the parish was united to that of Monkstown.

The Roman Catholic Church so long as the Walshes were at Carrickmines had the use of the castle for their services, and after the Restoration probably had concealed places of worship as, in 1704, the Rev. James Connor was returned as parish priest of Tully, and the Rev. James Murphy as parish priest of St. Stephen’s of Leperstown, as well as of Kill-of-the-Grange.

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