St Michael's Church stands on Marine Road in Dún Laoghaire, the coastal town south of Dublin, once known as Dunleary and then, under British rule, as Kingstown. The parish was established in 1829, just one week before Catholic Emancipation was ratified, enshrining equal rights for Catholics in law for the first time. Construction began almost immediately.

Most of the original building was lost in a fire in the 1960s. What survived is the tower and spire, now carefully restored. The replacement church, completed in the 1970s, was built in granite to match, and its entrance features artwork drawn from the Book of Kells, with St Michael slaying a dragon carved above the door in an early Irish style.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the church as the starting point for Dún Laoghaire's story, tracing the town's journey from ancient fort to royal harbour and its complicated relationship with British rule.