St Augustine Ballyduff Wilson Gun 1887 Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience

A New Church in Rattoo St Augustine Wilson Gun 1887

In this special episode Danny Houlihan returns once again to Ballyduff and through the faded brown documents and old newspaper clippings from old scrap books of the day takes a journey back in time at a part of a shared shared history between Ballyduff and Ballybunion a unique Church commissioned by the late Wilson Gun and his wife of Ballyduff North Kerry Ireland in the year of 1877 and 1879. 

Indeed not many visitors to the area may know that located on Sandhill Road in Ballybunion there were two former Protestant Churches located there, the old Killehenny built after the Great Irish Holocaust of 1846 & 1847 and another St Augustine which is now the town library and is used by everyone and is well worth a visit. The church has a unique past, its beginnings originated in Ballyduff, its foundations, stone laid upon stone in the shadow of the famous round tower in Ballyduff just outside Tralee North Kerry 3 miles distant from Ballybunion, this church was moved stone by stone to Ballybunion in 1957

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