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Cúirt an Phaoraigh
The Church of Ireland’s architectural survey distinguishes the built church from a larger published proposal.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cúirt an Phaoraigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Powerscourt · English · main form
Place & story
A smaller church than the proposal
Saint Patrick’s Church at Enniskerry serves the Powerscourt parish group. The Church of Ireland’s Gloine survey attributes its design to John Norton and describes an Early English building with a nave, an apsidal sanctuary, a south transept and a tower at the north-east corner. The survey notes that a proposal published in the Illustrated London News on 21 November 1857 showed a much larger church with aisles. The published design and the building described by the survey therefore differ in scale and plan. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Powerscourt. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Powerscourt, Enniskerry: Saint Patrick, Gloine building2941, survey17June2002 · Church of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-04-30. How this page was prepared.