1702 AD
Relocation of the penal Mass-house in Dingle
The sovereign and a Mr Whitall Brown ordered the parish priest of Dingle to remove the Mass-house from its close proximity to the military barracks on Barrack Height on John St to another place further away. The reason given was that `the Mass house to which 300 or 400 persons resort Sundays and other holydays and therefore there is danger of surprise`. The priest erected a chapel at the opposite end of the town, on what is now known as Chapel Lane, where it served the faithful until 1812. Its location and ministry was an open secret and was connived at by the local Protestant Ascendancy.
