Foxrock Parish, which manages the site – conservatively valued at €10 million – on behalf of a diocesan trust recently decided to sell the land to the local GAA club.
However, St Brigid’s rugby club officials have called the deal a “land grab” by the GAA.
It sent a solicitor’s letter to the parish calling on the church to stop the sale.
The parish issued a letter to all parishioners and raised the matter from the altar at Masses last weekend saying that allegations by the rugby club “are at variance with the facts and the evidence”.