[8] Boyle chose to live in his newly acquired Wicklow estate and was granted a royal charter to establish a new town there on a greenfield site, which he named Blessington - or Blesinton as it was more commonly referred to during the 1600-1800s.

[8][9] One of the main avenues leading from the house linked it directly to the front of St Mary's Church, which was completed some years later.

[1] The dedication was attended by many of the clergy of the diocese, who came "in their formalities to the church... most of them in their surplices and hoods to join the rector, John Sydall".

[1] According to Kathy Trant, the procession outside the building was curtailed due to a 'deluge' of rain, which forced the dignitaries to take shelter inside the church where the formal service of convocation and communion took place.

"[12] According to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, the church is "constructed in rubble granite" whereas the "three-stage bell and clock tower is finished in roughcast render".