Lourdes: a place of grace, of hope and of resilience.

The Oblates came to Inchicore in 1856 and bought a farm close to the Railway Works.  A small wooden church was built in which Mass was celebrated by Eugene de Mazenod in 1857.   Many of the workers at the Railway Works had helped build this first church and it served the community until work began on the present church in 1876. Some of the land originally bought by the Oblates was sold to Dublin Corporation on the condition that it be used to provide housing for local people.   The proceeds of the sale helped fund the building of the new church. …