For a few years before 1812, Mass was said here by a Friar from Knocktopher, in a thatched house on the site occupied later by the national school. The first chapel was built about 1812, and continued in use down to about 1880, when it was replaced by the present chapel.

The above information on places of worship in the parish of Thomastown is, in the main, taken from Canon William Carrigan’s History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory (Vol IV pp 304-5)