Langrishe Place, Methodist Chapel


Langrishe Place, Methodist Chapel or Langrishe Hall was a Methodist Chapel established in Langrishe Place, Summerhill, Dublin, it was to provide a place for the congregation from the Free Church, Great Charles Street, Dublin, which was too big for their numbers. Originally set up in a rented premise in Langrishe Place in 1825, enlarged in 1830, the premises along with two houses were purchased and the chapel was rebuilt in 1835.
The original chapel opened on January 1st, 1826 by Rev. Adam Averell, was under the auspices of the Primitive Wesleyan Society, it was the third such chapel.
It was sold in 1882. And used as a schoolhouse, today it is used by Talbot motors, the gothic styled gable wall still standing and a protected structure stands at the end of Langrishe Place. In 1882 the congregation moved to a United Methodist Church on Jones Road, Clonliffe, Drumcondra, along with the congregation from Oriel Street. Jones road Methodist church closed in 1949.
The playwright Sean O'Casey worked as a janitor at No 10 Langrishe Place, which had been the methodist chapel, it had subsequently been a parish dispensary, a school and the branch of the Irish National Forresters Society. Langrishe Hall, was taken over in 1919 by James Larkin's sister Delia along with a number of others including Sean O'Casey, ran as the Irish Workers' Club and used for meetings and performances.