The Yellow Prefab Church- Our Lady of Loreto, Tallaght 1969
The Yellow Prefab Church of Mountain Park- Our Lady of Loreto On the 10 th December 1969 the Most Rev John Charles McQuaid came to Tallaght to dedicate and bless a large yellow prefabricated structure recently set down and assembled on the Old Bawn Road (Mountain Park). It was a temporary prefab Church erected to serve the faithful of the district on an interim basis, while greater plans were being advanced for the building of more permanent churches all over, what was soon to become Tallaght New Town. There were plans for the construction of 7000 new houses in the district over the following seven years and a rapidly growing flock, estimated to be 40,000 souls would soon need ministering to, some it was felt, rather urgently. The Catholic Church in Ireland had discovered the merits of prefabricated Churches in 1961 when the first two prefabricated churches manufactured in Ireland had been erected on Achill Island. The Most Reverent Dr. McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin was a