“This is a place of awe; his is God's house, the gate of Heaven, and it shall be called the royal court of God”
[Taken from the Entrance Antiphon for the dedication of a church]

The Church of the Holy Spirit was blessed and opened on 3rd December 1967, giving the people of Ballyroan a very beautiful, modern church and adding a new chapter in the long history of the ancient parish of Rathfarnham from which the parish of Ballyroan was constituted in 1968.  Canon Tom O'Donnell, PP Rathfarnham was in charge of the building of the church and became the first parish priest of Ballyroan.