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It was found that flash floods swept through this part of
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from 2006 to 2007 on behalf of the
Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh in advance of the construction of a hotel on part of the church grounds. These excavations reveled aspects of the development of the
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Catholic Institute, commonly known as St. Mary's Street Halls, by St Patrick's Catholic Young Men Society (CYMS). The parish priest Fr Edward Joseph Hannan and Michael Whelahan from the
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full of human and animal waste. Later, the ditch was filled in and buildings were eventual built over the site in the 17th century onwards before the church was built.
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to produce a series of murals for the church. These were installed but covered over by the
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in 1929. It is situated between South Gray's Close and St Mary's Street north of
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