Whitefriars Street Carmelite Church

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  • Address
    Southside, 56 Aungier St, city centre
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    475 8821

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If you find yourself mulling over the timing of a certain proposal - or know someone who needs some prompting - walk through the automated glass doors of this church and head for the remains of none other than St Valentine, donated by Pope Gregory XVI in 1835. The Carmelites returned to this site in 1827, when they re-established their former church, which had been seized from them by Henry VIII in the 16th century.

In the northeastern corner is a 16th-century Flemish oak statue of the Virgin and Child, which is believed to be the only wooden statue in Ireland to have escaped destruction during the Reformation.