Editing Raheny (section)

===Religious sites===
[[File:Raheny Church (RC) from Scout Den (orig tower fmt).jpg|thumb|Church of Our Lady Mother of Divine Grace]]

The ruined [[St. Assam's Church]], dating from a 1712 reconstruction of a 1609 building, is believed to be the successor to early religious settlement. The later [[St. Assam's Church]], opposite it, was built from 1859, in the period when Roman Catholics regained the right to have their own churches and opened in 1864.<ref name="Ch50_vill"/>

Raheny was also the site of two holy wells. The first of these, [[St. Ann's Well, Raheny|St. Ann's Well]], gave its name to St. Anne's Park.<ref name="StAWell_DHR04">{{cite journal |last1=Sharkey |first1=Joan U. |title=St. Anne's: The Guinness Estate |date=2004 |volume=57 |issue=2 |page=134}}</ref> The site of this well is still visible under a stone cupola by the boating lake in the park, but it has been dry for several decades, despite efforts by municipal authorities to restart it. The second well, dedicated to the patron saint of the area, St. Assam, lay in the field which now holds the Church of Our Lady Mother of Divine Grace. When last recorded, it was marked by a depression in the ground but was later, in the 20th century, covered over, and its waters diverted into the [[Santry River]].<ref name="RoadHowth_76">{{cite journal |last1=Dawson |first1=T |title=The Road to Howth |journal=Dublin Historical Record |date=September 1976 |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=127–128}}</ref>

The "Celtic-style" cross on display in the village (now on the main plaza but previously placed in other locations, including at the junctions of Main Street and Watermill Lane, and of Watermill Land and Howth Road) is a memorial to [[Marie Elizabeth Hayes]], an early female medical graduate and 19th-century medical missionary from the area to [[India]], paid for by locals in the area in which the doctor worked.<ref name="MEH_Cross">{{cite book |title=Raheny Heritage Trail |date=2000 |publisher=Raheny Heritage Society |location=Dublin, Ireland |page=7 |edition=2nd printing (1st 1992) |chapter=7. Raheny Cross}}</ref>