St. Michael's Church
Portarlington
County Offaly

R32 X205

St. Michael's Church Portarlington County Offaly - photo courtesy of Adrem 360
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Who we are

Welcome to the Parishes of Portarlington and Emo. We belong to the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. While separate in structure both Parishes are served by the same Parish Team. In both our parishes there are endless people who voluntarily carry out wonderful work, building up parish and community. We hope that this website will support this great work and that it will be a source of information for parishioners and visitors alike. We invite you also to become involved in parish or community activities.

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Patrick Street
Portarlington, County Offaly R32 X205
Ireland
Phone: 057 864 3004

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Church Pastor

Fr. Tom Dooley P.P.
Parish Priest
Patrick Street
Portarlington, County Offaly R32 X205
Ireland
Phone: 057 864 3004

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Psalms 28:7

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped...

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St. Michael's Church Portarlington Mass Times

St. Michael’s Church, Portarlington

Saturday Vigil: 6.15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 12:15pm

Monday to Friday: 10.00am
Holy Days: 10.00am & 7.30pm

St. Paul’s Church, Emo

Saturday Vigil:- 7.30p.m.
Sunday:- 11.00a.m.

First Friday: 9.30am
Holy Days: 7.30pm

St. John’s Church, Killenard

Sunday: 10:30am
First Fridays: 7.30pm

Holy Day: 10.30am

Church of the Sacred Heart, Rath

Sunday:- 9.00am
Eve of First Friday (Thursday):- 7.30pm
Holy Days: 9.00am

Mass Times last updated on the 4th of October, 2023


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St. Michael's Church Portarlington County Offaly - photo courtesy of Adrem 360
St. Michael's Church interior - photo courtesy of Adrem 360



St. Michael's Church History

Date of Church: 1842

Building Pastor: Fr. Terence O’Connell P.P.

Portarlington (Cúl an tSúdaire) The recess of the Tanner.

The town was founded in 1666 by Sir. henry Bennet, Home Secretary to Charles II, to whom the King made a grant of the lands of O’Dempsey, Viscount Clanmalier, forfeited in 1641. Sir Henry Bennet was created Baron Arlington. He obtained a Charter, creating a Borough within part of the lands of Cooletoodera, and introduced English settlers. The Parliament of Orrery and Ormond enacted that English names replace the Irish names of places, so the Borough of Cooletoodera received the name of Port-Arlington, or Arlington’s Fort.

Fr. Terence O’Connell, PP acquired the leases of the lands for the new Church site. he had previously been Administrator in Carlow and worked on the large project of the erection of Carlow Cathedral. The stones used in the building of the church came from the bed of the canal being constructed between Portarlington and Monasterevin. Fr. Edward O’Leary extended the church by 20 feet in 1915 and added chan cel, side chapels, nuns’ choir, the sacristies and baptistry. He completed Canon John O’Hanlon’s “The History of the Queen’s County”, Canon O’Hanlon died in 1905 and the two volume work appeared in 1907 and 1914.

A plaque in the side porch commemorates Fr. Terence O’Connell, P.P., who built the churches of Portarlington, Killenard and Emo, and who brought the Presentation Nuns (1854) and the Christian Brothers (1863) to Portarlington. Following his death in 1875 the parish was divided, with Emo and Rath becoming a new parish. Fr. O’Connell is interred in the parish church, as is his successor, Fr. Hugh Mahon P.P. (1875 – 1889). In 1971, under architect, Wilfrid Cantwell, the Church of St. Michael’s was refurbished in accordance with Vatican II.


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