31st May 2018. Train from Longford.
A walk around the campus. Opened in 1795 as the post-Penal Laws seminary for students for Catholic priesthood. Originally students were compelled to take an oath of allegiance to the English Crown.
About 12,000 students. The vast majority are not studying for priesthood.
The main building at Maynooth. I actually stayed two nights here when I attended a seminar in March 2009. As you will see, the photograph was taken at that time.
The cloisters of the main university building. Portraits of eminent Irish churchmen and photographs of ordination classes going back several years. Bust of St Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh who was hanged, drawn and quartered in London
Photos taken in the new campus.
Monuments commemorating the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 and the World Trade Centre victims in 2001.
Ireland: The Final Frontier 