Taney celebrations
Tomorrow (Sunday) Christ Church, Taney, will celebrate the bicentenary of the first service held in the church on 21 June 1818. The Archbishop of Dublin will be the celebrant at the Eucharist and the preacher will be the Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory, whose father, Canon Walter Burrows, was Rector of Taney from 1959 until 1983. Following the service Mr. Shane Ross, T.D., the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, will launch the revised parish history Taney – Progress of a Parish, written by Carol Robinson Tweed, which has been published by the O’Brien Press.
The parish of Taney,…
