before being entirely demolished. The site is now bare. Holy Cross College Clonliffe Clonliffe College takes in about 35 acres of the area which was once part of the Grange of Clonliffe. The seminary was opened in 1859 for the training of priests until 2000. Mass was said regularly in the church on the grounds of the college into the twenty-first century. In 2018, the Archdiocese of Dublin announced it would be selling the buildings and grounds to the GAA. North Strand Episcopal Church An unlicenced chapel formed part of the original schoolhouse on Spring Garden Street/North Strand and services were conducted there throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century. During the ministry of Rev. Michael Boote, an official church was built and served the Ballybough community for nearly fifty years. A building committee was appointed in 1833 and the site of the present church was secured on lease from March 1836. Rev C.H. Minchin, chaplain of the Rotunda Hospital, laid the foundation stone on 7 September 1836 and the church was opened in 1838. Rev Richard Hemphill was appointed chaplain in September 1840 and ministered for forty-five years. The Parish of North Strand was constituted in 1890 and the church became the parish church. In 1896 the parish was united with the Parish of Drumcondra and became the Parish of Drumcondra and North Strand. The church was electrified in 1911, and an organ was bought with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie. Many men of the Parish of Drumcondra and North Strand enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of the First World War and the fallen are commemorated on brass plates in the church. The church is nicknamed 'The Ivy Church' by locals. Other churches servicing Ballybough Christians The Church of the Visitation on Fairview Strand (Roman Catholic) was built in 1855 to accommodate the growing population of Ballybough and Fairview. The new parish of Fairview was established at the same time. St Joseph's on Portland Row was consecrated in 1865 and was in use until 1993. Education North Strand School The North Strand School was the first important educational institution established in Ballybough. It opened as a Sunday School in 1786, after it was noted that "a total want of education, both moral and religious prevailed among children" in the area. Arthur Guinness, Rev. Henry Irwin, and Rev. Norbert Daly were among the trustees of the