Description

Canvas Print

80cm x 60cm

Dungarvan is a coastal town and harbour in County Waterford, on the south coast of Ireland. Prior to the merger of Waterford County Council with Waterford City Council in 2014, Dungarvan was the county town and administrative centre of County Waterford. Waterford City and County Council retains administrative offices in the town. The town’s Irish name means “Garbhann’s fort”, referring to Saint Garbhann who founded a church there in the seventh century. The town lies on the N25 road (European route E30), which connects Cork, Waterford and Rosslare Europort.

 

Saint Augustine’s Catholic Church

A church of national significance on account of the continuation of a long-standing ecclesiastical presence on site, the earliest-surviving component of which is the remains of a thirteenth-century Augustinian priory, which has been integrated into a later composition. Subsequently ‘improved’ by George Coppinger Ashlin (1837 – 1921) in the late nineteenth century, some of the early or original character of the site has been lost as a result of some over-zealous renovation works carried out in the late twentieth century. Nevertheless, items of artistic design interest survive, both to the interior and to the grounds, including decorative plasterwork together with some cut-stone grave markers of attesting to high quality craftsmanship. The construction of the vault to the tower, and the construction of the roof to the nave, are subjects of technical significance. The church is prominently sited at the south end of Abbeyside, and forms an attractive landmark in the locality, most notably when viewed from Davitt Quay and The Park on the opposite side of Colligan River.