placenamesMerrion
Muirfin
Saint Mary’s Star of the Sea preserves a memorial pulpit’s marble and a restored painting.
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
- Muirfin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Merrion · English · main form
Place & story
Reusing and restoring church furnishings
At Saint Mary’s Star of the Sea in nearby Sandymount, the parish history records how an earlier pulpit survives in another form. Parishioners commissioned the pulpit and altar rails in memory of Thomas Leahy after his death in 1880; marble from that pulpit was later incorporated into the ambo, retaining his memorial tablet. Another conservation project followed in 1995, when Stella Harte restored the seventeenth-century painting The Return from Egypt and it was repositioned within the church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Dublin
- Within
- Dublin
- Civil parish
- Donnybrook
- Within
- Pembroke East D
- Coordinates
- 53.31210, -6.19974
- Logainm ID
- 1436545 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Merrion. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Our History: Saint Mary’s Star of the Sea, Sandymount, entries1880and1995 · Saint Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, Sandymount
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.