About St Mary’s Church, Bennekerry: Bennekerry was part of the parish of Tinryland until 1976. Townland names in the parish such as Ballinakill, Chapelstown and Friarstown point to early chapels in the area. An old thatched church in the townland of Bennekerry, dated 1700, was used prior to St Mary’s. The granite stone for the present building came from the quarry at Graigalug. The Blessed Sacrament was first reserved in St Mary’s c. 1930.
Carlow is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, 84 km from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic boundary between counties Laois and Carlow.
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The Republic of Ireland occupies most of the island of Ireland, off the coast of England and Wales. Its capital, Dublin, is the birthplace of writers like Oscar Wilde, and home of Guinness beer. The 9th-century Book of Kells and other illustrated manuscripts are on show in Dublin’s Trinity College Library. Dubbed the "Emerald Isle” for its lush landscape, the country is dotted with castles like medieval Cahir Castle.
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