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November 19 Portlaoise or Maryboro, Co. Laois. New Graveyard photos - part 1I'm calling this the new graveyard, it's not so new, but it is the current graveyard for Portlaoise. The earliest date on this set of photographs is 1894.
The graveyard is very big, divided into blocks and as is usual with graveyards the stones only lie in 'kind of' rows - meaning they are not nice straight sets of rows within the blocks. Anyway, I'm breaking the photographs up into different sets and I don't know how many parts this graveyard is going to have. Indexing photographs as in giving them names per the names on them takes a good while, about a week and then creating an index file with the names on my photographs takes another day or two - and then this time, I've added a different type of index to my web pages, in this new index, I give the name of the person, the year of death, placename if given and the stone reference number - that's another days work. I'm not sure if it's worth it though - for me it isn't, and there is never any feedback on these photographs except when someone wants a copy of one or wants to know what the information is on the stone, so, I may or may not put the time into creating this type of indec again. It might prove handy for someone though.
As I say, this is just the first part, more to come.
Surnames appearing on these stones (some of these are secondary names on the stones and will not be found in alphabetical order - consult the Surname index to get the stone reference number) : Ahern - Allman - Aloway - Barry - Bergin - Bland - Bowe - Breen - Brennan - Brett - Brown - Buggy - Burke - Byrne - Cahill - Carroll - Chester - Clarke - Clear - Cleary - Coady - Commins - Connell - Conroy - Coonan - Cooney - Cripps - Culbert - Cummins - Cunningham - Dalton - Dargan - Dea - DeCourcy - Delaney - Dempsey - Dollard - Doody - Doran - Dowling - Doyle - Dunne - Dwane - Egan - Farrelly - Fennell - Finnegan - Fitzgibbon - Fitzpatrick - Flanagan - Flynn - Galloway - Ging - Gorman - Graham - Green - Guilfoyle - Hanlon - Haslam - Healy - Hendrix - Hennessy - Higgins - Hinds - Houlihan - Howard - Hunston - Hyland - Ireland - Irwin - Kavanagh - Keenan - Kehoe - Keogh - Kerry - Lacumber - Lalor - Larkin - Lawless - Lynch - Maher - Malone - Marum - Mathews - McCormack - McDonald - McEvoy - McGill - McGuire - McKenna - Metcalfe - Molloy - Moloney - Moore - Mulhall - Mullins - Murphy - Murray - Nelius - Nelson - Nolan - O'Brien - O'Donovan - O'Gorman - O'Regan - O'Reilly - Paisley - Pender - Pilkington - Polisar - Powders - Preston - Quinn - Reardon - Redmond - Reilly - Rigney - Robinson - Roche - Rowney - Ruth - Scully - Shaw - Sheehan - Sheridan - Sherran - Sissons - Stapleton - Sydes - Taylor - Terrill - Territt - Thompson - Timmins - Tynan - Tyrrell - Walsh - Welby - Whelan - Whelan - - Wrafter - Wright
Photo album can be found at:
Surname index with years, places and stone reference numbers begins at:
The photo that I am putting with this blog is one of the 'map' of the cemetery and the gravestones posted on this site and in the photo album on http://www.laoisgenealogy.com come from the far end of the graveyard, the sections up near the top of the photograph. To the left of the graveyard there is or was a section which seems to have been for people who were Protestant, which doesn't seem to be used any more. There aren't many stones in it and people of all religions are buried in the main graveyard now.
November 03 Castle or Church?Quite often, when you go out looking for what might be a graveyard and is simply marked as a church on the Ordnance Survey map, then all you find is a wall, maybe even just a bit of a wall, covered in ivy. Sometimes, you follow the 'path' or 'road' as shown on the Ordnance Survey map and you just come to a dead end.
Recently, I was looking for an old church as marked on a current Discovery Series ordnance survey map, now this church was close to a castle. I followed the 'path' which was supposed to lead to the castle and came to a dead end. Then, I spotted a wall in the distance, up a hill.........so I went through the fields to see what the wall might lead me to. Old walls tell you that there was something there, it might have been a big old house, it may have been a castle, it may have been a church - but somewhere around when you see these old walls then you know that something was or is there.
Anyway, I found something. Having studied my OS map a bit more, I now know that it most likely was the castle, but, here are the photos and you can see the kind difficulty someone can have trying to decide whether or which when they find what's left of whatever it was!!
Shanhoe new graveyard, Co. Laois or Queen's Co.I have loaded photographs taken in the new graveyard at Shanahoe to my Laois Genealogy web site. The photos are at: http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/graves/shanahoe/index.htm Surnames occurring on these stones : Ashe - Bergin - Bowe - Byrne - Carroll- Cass - Chester - Clooney - Cole - Collier - Conway - Coogan - Cuddy - Delaney - Doocey - Doogue - Dowling - Dunlea - Dunne- Fitzpatrick - Furlong - Gorman - Harris - Hiney - Hutchinson - Kavanagh - Kelly - Kennedy - Kerwin - Kirk - Kirwan - Lalor - Lawlor - Leahy - Maher - Malone - McDonnell - McEvoy - Moylan - O'Driscoll - O'Mahony - O'Toole - Oxley - - - Palmer - Phelan - Reeves - Rohan - Ryan - Shortall - Wall - Walsh Placenames mentioned on memorials : Abbeyleix - Annegrove - Anngrove, Kilbricken - Balladine & Shanahoe - Ballytarsna - Boley - Boley, Abbeyleix - Boston - Cappanaclough - Castletown - Castletrench - Clonban - Cloncough - Cloncough & Kenton, England - Clonrudd - Clontyglass, Abbeyleix - Closh, Shanahoe - Dairyhill, Ballacolla - Derrykearn - Derryroe - Donore, Kilbricken - Durness', Killeaney - Glenside, Portlaoise - Hillchrest, Lisbigney - Kilcullen - Killeaney - Killeaney, Kilbricken - Killeaney, Mountrath - Lower Boley - Lower Boley, Abbeyleix - Norfolk rd., Phibsborough, Dublin - Scotchrath - Shanahoe - Shanahoe, Abbeyleix - Springmount - Temperence st., Abbeyleix - Woodview', Clonohill |
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