Forgot all about this one!

 

I loaded photos taken at the old graveyard in Ballintemple, Co. Tipperary to my From Ireland web site last week

 

Surnames A-H

http://www.from-ireland.net/tipp/graves/btemple/a/index.htm

 

Surnames K-T

http://www.from-ireland.net/tipp/graves/btemple/k/index.htm

 

Jane

Those of you who know me, know that I have been transcribing gravestones mainly in the County Laois or Queen's County area since about 1998.  Some of you know that today I photograph the gravestones and some of you have seen me say that there are stones which I could read in the past which I cannot read or find today.

Some of you know that I have indexed the names of the Heads of Household listed in the 1901 census for county Laois.

Some of you know that much of the material on any of my web sites is unavailable anywhere outside of Ireland - and some of you know that I have much more material than you see on any of my web sites. 

So, I am going to try and bring some more of what I have on-line.

Below, is a transcription of some gravestones in Aghmacart or Aughmacart, Co. Laois, Ireland.  These stones were read in 1999.  Back then, I was following recommendations for Irish genealogists - that only those stones which had dates pre 1880 should be read, and some others with older dates.  Sometimes, when in a graveyard if it was very small I used to read all the stones.

I still have tapes for some graveyard which have not been written up - because I can never find the time!

Listed below this transcription are the URL's for my Aghmacart gravestone photographs, a name index created using the photographs and my 1901 census heads of household for this parish.

Maybe this will help someone.

All of this material was transcribed by me alone.

Regards,
Jane
http://www.from-ireland.net
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com

Transcription of stones made in 1999

Barton: Book Tablet: Barton Margaret E. 1873-1935/Barton Hoysted B.L. 1861-
1950/Their son Isaac Norton 1903-1988 In loving Memory/Ballinphrase.

Purcell: continuing Edmund Purcell grave in Aughmacart:
His son Patrick Purcell died 1891 aged ?/

Purcell/Maher: Erected by/Joseph Maher/Coolkerry/ in memory of/Edward
Purcell/died 20th March 1907 aged 83 years/Also his wife/Catherine Purcell alias Maher/died 2nd Nov 1907 aged 88 ears

Horahan/Drennan: Here lies the body of Silvester Ho?/han died the year 1765 aged
54 yrs also/his wife Bridget Horahan als Drennan/died the year 1780 agd 60 yrs/and their daughter Catherine died at the age of 30

Horahan: Here lies the body of Malick Horahan/Daniel Horahan/ Denis Horahan

Fanning: Here lies the body of James Fanning who depd this life Octbr ?? 18?? Aged 62
yrs May God have mercy on his soul Amen.

Walsh/Dunfy: Erected by John Walsh in memory of his/father brothers ? Bridget
Walsh /als Dunfy departed this life Feb ?/ 1768 aged 37 years/Martin Walshe depd this life Feby 16th 1806 aged?? Years/Richd Walsh died ? April 30th 1807 aged /3 yrs/

Clancy/Bergin: Erected by/ Iwran Clancy of Raplagh/in memory of his father, John
Clancy/who depd this life March 18th 1846 aged 90 yrs/also his wife Sarah Clancy, alias Bergin/who depd this life June 6th 1816 aged 49 years/John Clancy Ballydavin, died Nov 30th 1965 aged 65 years/May their souls rest in peace Amen.

Clancy/Keenen: Erected by John Clancy of Raphlow/in memory of his wife
Elizabeth/Clancy als Keenen who depd this /life June 6th 1895/6 aged 63 years/Also his son Willm Clancy/who depd this life August 26th 1815/13/aged 15 years

McCormick/Tynan/Maher: Erected by Thos McCormick in memory/of his father
Richd McCormick who depd Nov 16th 1808 aged 63 years/Also his mother Mary McCormick alias/Tynan who depd July 5th 1829 aged 60 years/And his brother Patk McCormick who /depd April 24th 1824 Aged 36 years/
Small stone on this plot: Sister /Margaret Mary Maher died 24th May 1928/RIP

Maher: Another stone on this family Plot: In loving memory of/The Maher Family
Rapla/Denis Maher/born 1863-died 14th July 1941/his wife Margaret /born 1889 died 3rd April 1977/Their daughter Mary/born 28th Oct 1913 died 21st may 1928/Their son Thomas /born 14th May 1922 died 26th Jan 1959/Their daughter Elizabeth (Betty) /born 19th Nov 1919 died 2nd Oct 1990/RIP

Kenny/Whelan: Erected by Edward Kenny/of Aughmacart. In memory of/his father
Edward Kenny who depd /this life Dec 22nd 1858 . aged 68 years/Also his mother Judy Kenny alias Whelan who depd this life August 15th /1838 aged ?? years/Also his brother/John Kenny who depd this life march /5th or 7th 1816 or 1811 aged 20 years. His sister Judy/died young.

Kenny/Keenan: In loving memory of/Edward Kenny, Ballydavin died 28th June 1975,
aged 66 years/ His wife Anne (nee Keenan) /died 2nd Dec 1995, aged 82 years/His sister Elizabeth, died 5th July 1995 aged 84 years/

Aghmacart or Aughmacart, Gravestone Photographs taken last year
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/graves/aghmacart/index.htm


Aghmacart or Aughmacart Index to names on Gravestone Photographs
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/graves/aghmacart/names.htm

Aghmacart or Aughmacart Old gravestone transcription 1999 - as per this email.  Differs from photographs.  Some of the stones could be read in 1999, and can't now.
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/graves/aghmacart/old.htm

1901 census Heads of Household index
Surnames A-F
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/1901census/aghmacartatof.htm

Surnames G-L
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/1901census/aghmacartgtol.htm

Surnames M-Y
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/1901census/aghmacartmtoy.htm

Still cleaning up my folders and still with Kildare county.  I've loaded the photos I have of gravestones taken in the county council graveyard outside Kildare town.  It's a big graveyard and needless to say I didn't take photographs of all the stones in it.  Also, it's an active graveyard, meaning that people are still being buried in it.  It's an older graveyard in the vicinity that I'd be more interested in getting photographs for!

 

I've not gone through these photos and indexed them the way I am doing with Kilkenny and Laois.  I've simply named each photo as per the surnames on the stone and I've divided them up into two albums.

 

 

 

The thing is that lots of times different surnames appear on a stone so if you do find any photos with your surname of interest be sude to check the names on the photos in the second album to see if that surname occurs on any other stones.

 

Jane

I'm doing a clean up of my desktop and all the different back ups I have and have come across a bunchof Kildare graveyards.

 

So, Kilberry Church of Ireland Graveyard, Co. Kildare is the first set I've worked my way through.  I'm not indexing these, just giving the photographs names per the names on the stones.

 

I photographed every stone that was standing or could be accessed in this graveyard.  Some can't be read, and I've alos loaded those plus photos of the church to my From Ireland web site and they can be seen at: http://www.from-ireland.net/kild/graves/kilbcoi/index.htm

 

Jane

Am down the country at the moment and set out to go to Tipperary the other day to photograph some graveyards I haven't been to - had myself a list and all....

 

Except, y'know the way it goes "the best laid plans of mice and men" - I had to go to Kilkenny before I went to Tipperary and then, en route to Clonmel, I turned off the road to take a look at just one Kilkenny graveyard - and then, after that one one my way back to the main road, there was another graveyard and sure I couldn't just drive past it and then there was another one, I skipped number four cos it was a modern graveyard.

 

By the time I got back to the main road I have photographs from Ballycallan, Kilballykeeffe and Grove (which is close to Acaroe townland) - all in the area of Cuffesgrange - about 600 photos.

 

By the time I'd done all of those, my back was killing me and I set off back for home in Laois.

 

Used up half a tank of petrol - and speaking of which, all of this taking photographs in gravestones is all very well, I don't mind the time given to naming the photos or the indexing of them *but* when I think about how much it costs me in petrol etc I just wonder why bother.  I'm getting nowhere and it's costing me a fortune.

 

I've got Google advertisements on From Ireland and on Laois Genealogy and on Kilkenny Genealogy.  Google has even an advertisement set on my Irish Sights & Sites blog (which I don't give an awful lot of time to) and Google pays me a few cent every time one of my visitors clicks on one of the Google Ads and visits the advertised web site.  I don't get much money out ot if, but - it helps pay for the petrol - *except* it doesn't pay for all the petrol in any month!

 

I just wish that anyone who visited any of my sites would just visit one of those Google advertisements.  Magazines and Newspapers 'support' themselves by charging for advertising - people pay money to buy them and then they see the ads.  It would really be nice if I could get through one month - or, preferably every month where it wasn't my money going out to pay for my petrol.  I'm thinking that maybe I'm finally geting sense and I'm thinking of giving it up.

 

Maybe today is just a blue day - the weather is lovely outside maybe my mood will change before the day is up.

 

I'm adding a photo here, taken the other day when I was looking for a graveyard.  It's just an example of the kind of road - really a lane, that I travel along sometimes in search of a graveyard.  Actually, once they get like this, I usually turn round and go back if I can't see the graveyard in the vicinity!

I forgot to give the URL for the photographs of the gravestones which can be read that I took in Castlecomer Roman Catholic Graveyard!!

 

I've sorted the photographs alphabetically and also created a name index showing the years of death and giving the name of the stone on which any surname is to be found.  You know the way sometimes you'd find for eg the surname McGrath on a stone for which the primary surname began with A.  So anyone looking for Mcgrath from Castlecomer mightn't think to look at other stones  with different surnames.

 

Surnames A-B are at : http://www.kilkennygenealogy.com/graves/comer/index.htm

Surnames C-D at: http://www.kilkennygenealogy.com/graves/comer/cdnames.htm

Surnames E-L:  http://www.kilkennygenealogy.com/graves/comer/elnames.htm

Surnames M:  http://www.kilkennygenealogy.com/graves/comer/mnames.htm

Surnames N-W: http://www.kilkennygenealogy.com/graves/comer/nwnames.htm

 

and then once you find the surname you are looking for you just follow the link to the photograph pages

 

The whole graveyard has not been indexed - I'm missing some of the stones at the back of the church.

 

I have so many blogs at this stage I could be going round in circles if I allowed myself!

 

This one though - it's primarily about graveyards and gravestones and so it will remain.  The thing is, like the blogs, I've got so much material that I never knew where to being.  Some of it is stuff I collected a couple of years ago, back then after a servious bout of photographing I knew that I had over 10,000 gravestone/church/scenic photographs from all the places I've been to.  Mainly counties Laois, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Offaly, Carlow, Kildare, Dublin - but then, no matter where I go, I take photograhs of gravestones, so I have material from other counties as well.

 

Recently, I realised that aloong with this MSN site comes an MSN blog - or, something like that - and that somehow, I've managed to acquire contacts on it - mostly people I knew who had found my addy in their address books and requested to be my friend, or put me as their contact and I may or may not have approved them not knowing what I was doing it for - - anyway, doesn't matter.  This blog and the MSN whatever it is are going to be and remain all about graveyards :-)

 

I'm just sitting here, been looking at my Tipperary material this morning cos I photographed a new Tipperary graveyard a few weeks back and had only just loaded the photographs to my puter, when I wondered how much of my Tipperary stuff is on line - so, I took a look at what's on my lap top hard drive in current folders, the folder from my old lap top hard drive, the back up material on my external hard drive (which I think is what is on my main PC) - and now my head *is* spinning!!

 

It would be nice to have time to create indices for all these graveyards like I  have begun with those on my Kilkenny Genealogy and Laois Genealogy web sites but it's not possible cos I want to get my indexing for those counties finished.  So, Tipperary and other counties will have to be just photographs, with maybe surname and placename indexes as well to help people along.  Maybe some nice person would like to do the indexing for me and surprise me with lists!

 

Anyway, somewhere along the way in one of these blogs on this site, I said I was going to keep my photos for other counties on From Ireland, or else the Kilkenny or Laois sites and so I will.  Photographs which can't be easily read will be loaded to this site and then lists of names also on this site.  I'm thinking maybe too, I could be  abit more active as regards blogging on this site, in that I could keep track of which places I've been to - write a bit about them before I ever get round to naming the photos, indexing them and creating web pages with them.  That way, alnyone who checks out this blog, who is interested in gravestones from  a particular place might see that I've been to the place, tell me they are interested and maybe I might get to those photos quicker.

 

Usually, it takes a couple of hours to photograph a graveyard, but then it can take a week to name the photos, another week to index them and a day or so to create the web pages!

 

Jane