Cemetery: The Magdalen Asylum Chapel, Lower Leeson St *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Dublin Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: C. Hunt THE MAGDALEN ASYLUM CHAPEL, LOWER LEESON STREET [From the Rev. H.L.L. Denny.] 'Inscriptions on silver plate. 'On two medium-sized silver chalices and a paten':- Dedicated to the Service of God in the Chapel of the Magdalen Asylum in Leeson Street by Miss MARY RYND Decr 25th 1768. 'Miss RYND was sole daughter and heir of DAVID RYND, Esq. of Derryvullan and Drumlow, County Fermanagh; she married in 1769 Colonel EDWARD DENNY, M.P., nephew of Lady Arabella DENNY, who founded the Magdalen Asylum in 1767. 'On a chalice exactly matching those presented by Miss RYND':- Dedicated to the service of God in the Chapel of the Magdalen Asylum in Leeson Street by the Revd Dr HOSEA GUINNESS Augt 29th 1829. 'On a large silver chalice and paten, a large and two small alms-dishes, date about 1770':- Given by a Gentleman, unknown, to the Chapel of the Asylum for Female Penitents in Leeson Street, Dublin, through the hands of the Revd Dean BAYLY. _____ SOURCE: Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. Vol vii, FHL# 1279254