Welcome
Thank you for taking the time to visit St. Ciaran's Parish website. This site was created in March 2000 and serves as a source of information about St. Ciaran and the current parish dedicated to him in Hartstown, Dublin which is now home to over ten thousand parishioners.
St. Ciaran's Church (above left). We are six miles west of Dublin City Centre. Our mother Church was St. Brigid of Blanchardstown. We are seven miles from Dublin airport, beside the M50 and the Blanchardstown New Centre. Nearby is Aras An Uachtaran, "the house of the President of Ireland" at Phoenix Park.
The Cross of the Scriptures (above centre) in the monastic city of St Ciaran, Clonmacnoise was built to the memory of Flann - high King of Ireland in 920AD. One panel of the cross shows Ciaran the monk and a rebel King, hand in hand, staking the site of the new monastery in 547 AD.
St. Ciaran's Emblem (above right). Archbishop Dermot Ryan of Dublin chose St Ciaran as patron for our parish and schools in Hartstown in 1978. We too were an infant foundation with young people arriving to make their homes in the fields, without roads, shops or electricity. My own spirit was seeded with memories of Ciaran and Clonmacnoise.
