Molyneux Asylum

The Molyneux Asylum for Blind Females
Molyneux Church and Asylum, Leeson Park, 1860
Location
Peter St., later Leeson Park Dublin Ireland
Information
School type	Asylum for blind females

The Molyneux Asylum for Blind Females was opened in 1815 in Peter Street, Dublin, in what was formerly the residence of Thomas Molyneux (1641-1733), whose sister-in-law, Lucy Domville, had been blind. There was an Anglican church attached to the asylum.^[1]

A new home for the asylum, along with a church, was constructed 1860-1862 at Leeson Park. The architect, selected after a competition, was James Rawsom Carroll.^[2]

One of the first chaplains to the asylum was Rev. Piers Edmund Butler. Later came Rev. Charles Marley Fleury. Chaplain in the mid-19th century was Rev. James Metge, of Carlow. John Duncan Craig was chaplain from 1873 to 1884.^[3] Albert Hughes was chaplain in the 1920s and 1930s.

References

1. Library Ireland
2. The Irish Times, 3 Jan 1881, p. 3
3. Stephen Brown (ed) Ireland in Fiction. Maunsel, Dublin, 1919. p. 71