Ormond Quay Presbyterian church

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Ormond Quay Presbyterian Church is a former church located at Ormond Quay, Dublin. There was a congregation of Presbyterians, many of Scottish extraction, in Dublin around Ormond Quay since the early 18th century, a Mr. Arbuckle being the first minister. It was first established in 1707 in Ushers Quay (on a plot of land called Usher's Garden) after a split within the congregation of Bull Alley. The congregation from the Plunket Street Meeting House(Presbyterian church) merged with Usher's quay in 1844. The construction of the Ormond Quay church was financed by a bequest from a widow, Martha Maria Magee (née Stewart) from Lurgan, County Armagh, who had moved to Dublin. She had inherited a large sum of money from her brothers, both soldiers. The church was designed by architect Edward P. Gribbon and erected in 1847. It was enlarged to the design of the same architect in 1859. The church was in charge of the Presbyterian Female Orphan School, 77 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, where its pastor and members sat on its board of governors. In 1938 the Ormond Quay congregation merged with the other Scots Presbyterian Church congregation on Abbey Street. Ormond Quay became the home of the Dublin...

- 1734 1754 - Rev. Robert McMaster, moderator of Synod of Ulster in 1739

- 1763-1783 - Rev. James Caldwell (incorporated the Plunket Street Congregation in Ushers Quay)

- 1780-1824 - Rev. Hugh Moore, died 1824 after many years of illness and unable to officiate.

- 1808-1813 - Rev. W. D. H. McEwen (1787-1828)

- 1815-1835 - Rev. Samuel Simpson, sole minister form 1824

- 1835-1858 - Rev. Richard Dill (1807–58), overseen the transfer to Ormond Quay, and was executor of the will Martha Magee which led to the establishment Magee College.