http://templeorumparish.com/owningchurch.html
The parish chapel was at Templeorum as early as 1600. During the Cromwell occupation, or in 1715 or 1745, mass was held in secret locations, often out of doors.
Due to the anti-Catholic Penal Laws, Catholic property ownership was a problem, so church building was difficult. Between 1790 and 1830, priests were building new chapels for Catholic worship and encouraging weekly attendance at Mass. Weekly attendance was difficult for the poor who usually walked to get to chapel.
In the mid 1700's Father Thomas Lalor served the church in Templeorum and also offered Mass at Piltown and Owning, in rented spaces, riding horseback between these locations. His first curate was father John Gogarty who began in 1783.
1798 saw a vicious civil war in neighboring Wexford County.
In Owning a rented barn at Ballinacronny was used for Mass until the chapel at Piltown was built in 1798, and the Owning chapel about the same time. The Owning chapel was built near a medieval church. This served the people of the Bessborough Estate. The early chapel was a simple thatched building and the poor people stood or knelt on mats.
In 1850 a lease from the Earl of Bessborough was obtained to build the new chapel at Owning. "Comfortable farmers" those with 20 acres or more, would have paid most of the costs. The chapel shows in a map of Owning village dated 1812 and was probably completed by 1800. Pews did not come until 1900. Those that were too infirm to kneel or stand did not attend.
Owning chapel was completed in 1798. It had both pew seating in the nave and galleries overhead for the choir and organ. Parish families would have paid for family pews to be made.
http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=images&county=KK®no=12403905
(see pictures on drive)
Baptisms- name, father, mother, date
there are several graces here- Ellen b 7-10-1804 dtr of Thos and Mary GRace and John b 19 NOv 1804 son of Thomas and Marg Grace
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