Irish Graveyard place......: Blog

County Laois or Queen's Co & others connecting it!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:52:27 GMT

Over the last while I've been having major computer problems with the result that I haven't been adding photos or much to this site or my From Ireland web site. Outside of not adding new stuff though, I have been busy working on a new web site for County Laois or Queen's Co., which is my main county of interest cos I grew up there.

The thing is, there are so many ways that the counties around any one county connect, you have Dioceses taking in more than one county, you can have one parish spread though two or more counties, you can have a civil parish of one name in one county but the Roman Catholic parish of the same name taking in townlands in two counties. Galmoy in Kilkenny and Portarlington in Laois are prime examples of this. Galmoy covers Laois & Kilkenny and Portarlington covers Offaly & Laois.

Anyway, I decided that I've seen too many people asking questions on the various county rootsweb mail lists which never get answered cos people tend to think of counties as being fixed individual entities. I've created a new mail list or group on Google Groups for Laois and the counties which surround it. I meant to include Tipperary in the name, but I forgot!! and I ended up with a group called : Carlow-Kildare-Kilkenny-Laois-Offaly-Ireland-genealogy

* Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/carlow-kildare-kilkenny-laois-offaly-ireland-genealogy

So, even though it looks like I've not been too busy, I have, between setting up the Laois or Queen's County Genealogy web site at http://www.laoisgenealogy.com (to which I am busy moving information from the Laois section of my From Ireland web site, and then the new Google Group for the above counties. Then, I have to go back to anywhere that I have the old URL's at and change them, just like with this site. in the meantime, I have lots more new gravestone photographs to go on this site or From Ireland when I get round to it.

Jane

Anatrim, Coolrain, Co. Laois

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:41:33 GMT

I have loaded the photographs taken at the old Church of Anatrim near Coolrain to my web site

The photographs can be see at:
http://www.laoisgenealogy.com/graves/anatrimold/index.htm

The surnames and placenames found on the stones are listed below.

General photographs showing the condition of the graveyard and the numerous stones which can't be read and marker stones can be seen in the Anatrim photo album on this web site. The graveyard has been restored in the last number of years and the marker stones are all laid out the same way as in other graveyards, but the condition of the raveyard is deteriorating rapidly and it looks like it will soon be back to the way it was when I last visited it in 1999.

Surnames found on these stones : Bergin - Bradish - Brereton - Burke - campion - Carter - Conroy - Cooper - Cornelious - Coughlan - Drennan - Edward?s - Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick - Flood - Harding - Haswell - Hipwell - Hyland - Leigh - Mitchell - Murphy - Palmer - Phelan - Pim - Sawyer - Selby - Sharp - Vousden - Ward

Placenames found on stones in this graveyard:
Ballytarsna, Borris in Ossory - Drim - Laurel Hill - Mountrath - Roundwood - Tinnakill

Roscomroe, Co. Offaly or King's Co.

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:35:25 GMT

I have loaded photographs of gravestones taken in the old cemetery at Roscomroe to my web site. Roscomroe is on the road from Roscrea in Tipperary to Kinnity. Surnames and placenames on the stones are listed below.

The photographs can be accessed at:
http://www.from-ireland.net/off/graves/roscomroe/index.htm

Jane

Surnames found on the stones:
Bastic - Bergin - Byrne - Carry - Chester - Clear - Cleere - Corcoran - Cordial?? - Culleton - Delaney - Flanagan - Hayes - Hearns - Jackson - Mullins - Phelan - Ramsbottom - Whelan

Placenames on the stones:
Assumption Pk, Roscrea - Ballyshane - Baugh, Ballybritt - Clashroe - Clashroe, Ballybritt - Derrymore, Roscrea - Gurteen - Gurteen, Ballybritt, Roscrea - Gurteen, Roscrea - Newtown & Clashroe - - Rookwood, Australia - Roscomroe - Roscomroe, Roscrea - Upper Gurteen, Roscrea

Galmoy RC Graveyard, Counties Kilkenny & Laois

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:01:46 GMT

Another set of last years Christmas photographs. Galmoy itself is actually in County Kilkenny, but the Roman Catholic Parish of Galmoy takes in places in County Laois and there are lots of Laois people in this graveyard

Surnames found on the stones
Bergin - Bowe - Brophy - Burke - Byrne - Cahill - Callaghan - Campion - Carey - Carroll - Cavanagh - Clarke - Costigan - Cullinan - Cummins - Curran - Delaney - Delany - Dillon - Doherty - Dollard - Dullard - Dunphy - Dunphy - Dwyer - Farrell - Fitzpatrick - Fogarty - Gannon - Gannon - Glendon - Grace - Hanrahan - Hennessy - Holland - Holohan - Horahan - Houlihan - Kavanagh - Kelly - Kennedy - Kerwin - Lawlor - Loughlin - Maher - Mahon - Marshall - Marum - McBride - McDonnell - Moore - Morrissey - Mulhall - Murphy - Norton - O'Connell - O'Donnell - O'Neill - Phelan - Quinn - Russell - Ryan - Sherman - Smith - Travers - Whelan - Whyte

Placenames listed on the stones :

Ballydonnell - Ballyedmond - Ballyedmond, Rathdowney - Ballyhale - Ballyspellan - Baunaughra - Bawn - Bawnmore - Bayswell - Bayswell House -
Borrisbeg, Urlingford - Bricana, Crosspatrick & London - Canedauge? - Cappalinnen - Castletown - Clontubbrid - Coolatha, Galmoy - Coolnacritta - Coolnacrutta - Corkhill, Dromkiernan, Co. Leitrim - Cuffsboro - Danesfort - Eirke - Galmoy - Garrylawn - Garrylawn, Galmoy - Glishare - Glosha, Rathdowney - Graigue - Graigue, Rathdowney - Graiguegarron - Graine, Urlingford - Harristown - Knockeil - Kyle - Kyle, Rathdowney - Tullaroan - Lavally - Levalley - Lough - Middle Park, Galmoy - Mountmellick - Mountstopford - Moyne - Rathbane - Rathdowney - Rathna?liugh Castle - Rathpatrick - Rathreagh - Rathree - Rialto, Dublin - Ross - Shragh - Strabawn - the Chapel of Galmoy - Ton...? - Tullyvolty - U.S.A. - Whiteswall

The photographs can be accessed at :

http://www.from-ireland.net/kilk/graves/galmoy/index.htm

Ballymacmurragh, Co. Offaly or King's Co. Ireland

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:58:29 GMT

I have loaded the gravestone photographs which I took in Ballymacmurragh Roman catholic cemetery last year to my From Ireland web site. The Church is relatively new and stands on the side of the road. A man I met there told me that one side of the church was in one parish and the other in a different parish. The people buried in this graveyard come from Offaly, Laois and Tipperary.

Surnames found on the stones
Bergin - Boland - Brereton - Brown - Browne - Carroll - Carry - Conway - Conway - Cooper - Corrigan - Coughlan - Daly - Davis - Delaney - Dempsey - Dooley - Dooly - Edgel or Edgely - Egan - Finnerty - Fitzpatrick - Flanagan - Gleeson - Glenn - Grawn? - Hanly - Hennessy - Hensey - Hogan - Lawlor - Mahon - McDonnell - McDowell - Meledy - Molloy - Rigney - Robinson - Russell - Ryan - Sharpe

Placenames
Ballym(?a)ck - Ballywilliam - Beaugh - Cadamstown - Castletown - Charleville, Borris in Ossory - Clashroe, Roscrea - Clashroo? - Clonlee - Clonlee, Kinnitty - Cumber - Derrybeg, Clareen - Derrykeele - Droughtville - Droughtville, Kinnitty - Glendine, Kinnity - Grouse Lodge? - Kenety - Knockarlow - Knockbarron, Kinnitty - Kyle - Longford - Newtown - Newtown, Clareen - Oakley Park, Clareen - - Poulduff - Poulduff, Kinnitty - The Strand - Tulla

The photograph index can be found at: http://www.from-ireland.net/off/graves/ballymacmurragh/index.htm

and I am going to load some general photos of the graveyard and church to an album on this site

http://www.from-ireland.net/off/graves/ballymacmurragh/index.htm

Moyne, Tipperary, Ireland, Gravestones

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:18:01 GMT

Moyne has the oldest gravestones I've indexed forTipperary yet (Templemore has older but I've not indexed them yet).

Moyne is another small village, you can pass through it on the way to Templetouhy. The Roman Catholic Church is on the street and the graveyard kind of a but back from that but visible from the road. Like many graveyards its got a dedication to those who died in the great famine on the wall. You don't see that until you are exiting though!

The Gravestone photos are at:

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

and I'll put some of the photos of the church in the album on this site

Surnames found on the stones:
Ahern - Bannan - Bannon - Banon - Blake - Bourke - Brassil - Brennan - Brien - Burke - Butl. (Butler) - Butler - Byrne - Cahil - Cahill - Cantwell - Carey - Carrol - Carroll - Carty - Casey - Cavanagh - Cherin - Clancy - Cleary - Common - Conoly - Cooney see Quaney - Corbett - Corcoran - Cormack - Cormick - Cradick - Cunningham - Cushion - Cusion - Cussen - Deegan - Delaney - Dermody - Dillon - Doolan - Dooly - Dowling - Doyle - Dunn - Dunne - Dunphy - Dwyer - Eagan - Egan - Ely - Everevd (probably Everard) - Fanning - Feehely - Fennelly - Fitzgerald - Flynn - Fogarty - Gleeson - Gorman - Grace - Grant - Grimes - Guider - Guilfoyle - Hayes - Healy - Heffernan- Hickey- Kavanagh- Kelly - Kennedy - Keogh - Kiely - Langton - Lanigan - Leahy - Liston - Liston - Long - Lynam - Mackey - Maher - Manton - Mara - Martin - McBrid - McBride - McKeogh - McKeough - Meagher - Meara - Moakler - Mooney - Moore - Morooney - Morris - Morrissey - Murphy - Myhan - Nolan - O'Brien - O'Bryan - O'Connell - O'Dwyer - O'Grady - - O'Mara - O'Meara - O'Shea - Phelan - Power - Purcell - Quaney (Cooney) - Quin - Quinlan - Quinn - Ralph - Russel - Russel - Russell - Ryan - Scott - Shanahan - Sheehy - Shelly - Sherin - Smee - - Stapleton - Stokes - Sweeney - Sweeny - Tierney - Tobin - Travers - Treacy - Troy - Welch - White - Davy

Placenames on these stones
Aston's Quay, Dublin - Ath...? - Athcradogue - Athlomon - Athnid - Balleirk - Bally?bry? - Ballybehe - Ballyduff - Ballyerk - Ballygemane - Ballyknockane - Ballynockan - Bangalow, Australia - Barna - Barna, Templetouhy - Barnaghlisheen - Barnalisheen - Bawn - Bawnmore - Bawnmore Cross - Bawnmore, Johnstown - Bohernamona - Boulabeha - Boulabeha, Moyne - Boullebeha - Bricana - Carric, Birr - Castle Ave, Thurles - Castletown - Cloherrealy - Clonboo - Clover - Clover, Two Mile Borris - Coolaculla - Coolacullo - Cooleeney - Cooleeney, Moyne - Cooleroo - Coolfeeney - Cooliney - Cooloney House, Moyne - Coraheen - Cotswolds', Moyne - Crana - Cranagh - Crosspatrick - Cullohill - Curraheen - Derryfadda - Dromkeen - Dublin - Gabertstown or Gadbertstown, Holy Cross - Garrenroe (or Carrenroe?) - Garrenroe, Thurles - Garrenroe, USA - Grallagh - Inchirourke - Inchorourke - Kilclooney - Kilemakil - Kilemore - Killoran - Killoran, Moyne - Killorn - Kilmore - Kylemakill - Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia - Liberty Square, Thurles - Liffaficey (Lissaficey?) - Lis?donly -Lisanure - Lisdonowly - Lisheen - Lisheen, Moyne - Longford Pass - Loughmore - - Mancelestown - Manselstown - Melbourne, Australia - Melrose', Cloncour, Thurles - Moin - Moycarkey - Moynard - Moyne - Moyneard - Moynetemple - New Orleans, America - Noard - Pill?ungan - Rahealty - Rahealty, Thurles - Roscrea - Templemore - The Windmill - Thurles - Tullow - Tullowmacjames - Two Mile Borris - Twomileborris - Urard

Drom, Drum or Dromineer, Co. Tipperary Gravestones

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:05:50 GMT

This is one I haven't mentioned before mainly because I hadn't created the name or place index for the photographs.

Drom is a pretty little one street village, there's a lovely thatched cottage right beside the Church grounds. Placenames mentioned on the stones lie in many of the surrounding civil parishes and even up to Dublin and over to America, Chicago to be exact

Surnames found on these stones:
Bannon - Barry - Berkery - Bohan - Bourke - Boyle - Brereton - Butler -Cahill - Callanan - Campion - Cantwell - Carroll - Cleary - Condon -Costello - Creighton - Crowe - Cuilmartin see Guilmartin - Devitt - Doolan - Dooley - Dwan - Dwyer - Egan- Fannen - Fanning - Finn - Fogarty - Freeman - Glasco - Gorman - Guilmartin or Cuilmartin - Harrahill - Hassett - Hennessy - Hogan - Howard - Hynes - Kenneally - Kennedy - Keogh - Kinshela - Kirwan - Laffan - - Laharte - Lanigan - Lanigan Ryan - Leahy - Long - Lowry - Lynch - Magher - Maher - McGrath - Meagher - Nesbitt - O'Brien - O'Doherty - O'Donovan - O'Dwyer - O'Faolain - O'Keeffe - O'Shea - Phelan - Quinlan - Russell - Ryan - Shelley - Sheridan - Stapleton - Sweeney - Treacey - Troy - White - Williams - Wixted - Young

Placenames found on these stones :
Adamstown - Annfield - Annfield, Bouladuff, Thurles - Ballinlonty - Ballinvena, Toomevara - Ballyknock - Ballypatrick - Barna - Barnane - Barnane, Templemore - Borrisofarney - Borrisoleigh - Bouladuff - Camblin, Roscrea - Chicago - Clarin, Ballycahill - Clonboo - Clonismullen - Clonismullen, Drom - Clonismullin - Connell's Cross - Curraghgloss - Donnybrook, Dublin - Dovea - Drom - Harolds Cross, Dublin - Kilfithmone, Borrisoleigh - Killagahan - Killahagan, Drom - Killoskehane - Kilnafinch, Drom - Kiloskehan - Kiltilleha - Kilvilcoris, Drom - Knocka - Knocka, Drom - Leugh - Liscrea - Lisheen - Main st., Borrisoloigh - Mountcatherine - Roardstown - Roo, Killoskehan - Springmount, Drom - The Orchard, Castleiney - Tinavoher, Loughmore - Toher
The photographs are on my From Ireland web site, just click on the URL below.
http://www.from-ireland.net/tipp/graves/drom/index.htm
I've a photgraph of a deserted house that I passed when on my way to Drom on my Irish Sites & Sights blog just in case anyone is interested in old deserted Irish houses and then I have other photos of Drom which I'll put on the From Ireland web site one of the days apart from the few of the church and graveyard which I am going to load to this blog.

Smithstown, Co. Kilkenny

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:19:56 GMT

There I was, going from A to B over Christmas when I came across Smithstown, there aren't many stones but I got chatting to a local man, it was between rain showers nad he was busy with his silage or something like that!! but he did tell me a few things about the area and the graveyard.

Mr. Heffernan, the man responsible for the restoration of this graveyard died working on it and is buried there.

The photos are at:

http://www.from-ireland.net\kilk\graves\smithstown\index.htm

Out.....or kind of

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:18:46 GMT

for the moment................. !

My computer crashed the other day - I was backed up to last Friday, so at least that much is saved...........

The thing is though...I have so many photos from graveyards and not enough time to go through them re-naming them, indexing them etc. I just keep taking more photos.

Just cos you don't see something on this site for you............it doesn't mean it won't be here - sometime.

Jane

Templetouhy

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:35:16 GMT

The graves in these photos are to be found around the Roman Catholic Church in Templetouhy village

Surnames appearing on the stones : Burke -Cormack - De La Poer - Dempsey - Hickey - Keating - Keatinge - Kennedy - Lalor - Murphy - Nelson see Lalor - Phelan see Lalor - Power see Lalor - Sheil

See the photo album for today's date

Killeigh, Old. Co. Offaly (King's Co.)

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:28:59 GMT

Last November I photographed gravestones in the old cemetery at Killeigh,
Co. Offaly (aka King's Co.). The graveyard is not in great condition, only
a small number of the stones were photographed as many were in very bad
condition. The photographs are now on line at

http://www.from-ireland.net/graves/off/killeighold/index.htm

Surnames found on the photographed stones : Barry - Carberry - Carroll
(maybe) - Corcoran - Coughlan - Cruise - Daly - Dempsey -
Doran (maybe) - Dunne (maybe) see Hill - Garry -Grogan - Healion -
Hill - Kelly - Kilduf (maybe) - Lally - McDonald -
Molloy also see Mooney - Mooney - Nolan

Jane
http://www.from-ireland.net

Mount St. Laurence, Limerick : Part 1

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:27:52 GMT

I've loaded photographs of stones beginning with surnames A-C from Mount St.
laurence graveyard in Limerick city this morning.

There is a Christian brother plot in the graveyard, the monument gives the
following surnames: Arthur - Barry - Buckley - Clarke - Colclough -
Collins - Considine - Cregan or Gregan - Duggan - Gaynor - Hegarty -
Kelly - Kilmartin - McAuley - McGrath - McNally - Molloy - Nestor - Nolan -
O'Brien - Roche - Ryan

The following surnames are also found on the stones with surnames A-C :
Devany - Donegan - Egan - Enright - Kelly - Lenihan - Lynch - MacNiece -
Murnane - Neiland - O'Brien - O'Connor - O'Connor - Portley - Purtill -
Quinlan - Ronayne - Ryan - Scannell - Sheahan - Smyth - White

Like I say on the web page it's not possible to load all the Mount St.
laurence photographs together - as it is, depending on your connection,
you'll see that it may take a while for this particular index page to load
as there are over 100 thumbnails on it. It's not possible either to make
sure that I keep track of photographs from family plots which may have the
different surnames but which may be photographed separately.

At this point I can decrease the size of the photo so that it takes up as
little room on my web site as possible, plus, I can change the quality to
make it a bit more readable than on the original. All of this takes a while
and as it has taken me a day or two to edit the photos on this page it will
be a while before I get the rest of this set finished.

Should anyone in this group be interested in copies of the original
photographs then please let me know and I will send them to you by email.

Other photographs from Mount St. Laurence were loaded to my Gravestone page
in the past, these are not included in this index

Jane
The photographs are at:
http://www.from-ireland.net/graves/lim/laur1/index.htm

Our Lady of the Wayside, Bird Hill, Co. Tipperary

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:26:42 GMT

Our Lady of the Wayside Church is outside Limerick City on the main road to Limerick from Dublin. It's a small church with few gravestones in the grounds.

When I was on my way into Limerick back in October of last year I stopped and photographed the window and station of the cross memorial plaques, plus the memorials in the Church grounds.

Surnames : Aherne, Bradshaw, Carliss, Coffey, Hayes, Mulcahy, Mulvihill, Murnane, O'Dwyer, O'Rourke, Ryan and Kennedy. The photographs are on my From Ireland web site http://www.from-ireland.net and the index page can be found at

http://www.from-ireland.net/graves/lim/birdh/index.htm

Jane

Crosskeys, County Kildare

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:02:42 GMT

Crosskeys in County Kildare would seem to be literally that, just a street or two on a crossroads and outside this is the graveyard. Townlands mentioned on the stones in the graveyard are from the civil parishes of Ballybrackan, Kilberry, Monasterevin and Kildangan for the most part. The remnants of the chuch walls are totally overgrown just humps in the earth with stones inside the wall perimeter.

I've uploaded this set of photos to my FLICKR account as it was the quickest and easiest way of uploading this many photos at once

Surnames as they appear on the stones

Archbold see Dunne - Archbold - Bacon & Pender - Barry see Rowan - Behan & Higgins & Kelly - Boland - Breen - Brennan - Bunbury - Butler see Spencer - Byrne - Carroll see Kelly - Carroll - Casey - Colmey - Conlon see O'Toole - Connolly & McDonnell - Connolly see Pender - Corcoran see Kelly - Corrigan - Cross - Curran see Dowling - Delaney - Dempsey & Demsy - Dow..(maybe Dowling) - Dowling & Curran - Dunne & Lawlor & Archbold & Grattan - Ennis - Eustace - Farrell - Fitzpatrick - Flanagan(maybe) - Flynn - Forde & Sheil - Foy - Grattan see Dunne - Hall - Harrison - Heffernan - Higgins see Behan - Hughes - Kavanagh see Murphy - Kavanagh - Kelly & Corcoran & Carroll - Kelly see Behan - Lalor - Lawler - Lawlor see Dunne - Lawlor -Lennon see Rourke - Maher - McDonnell see Connolly - Merrin - Mooney - Murphy & Kavanagh & Roche - Murray - Nolan - O'Toole & Conlon - Pender & Connolly - Pender see Bacon - Ready - Roche see Murphy - Rourke & Lennon - Rowan & Barry - Sexton - Sheil see Forde - Shorte - Smyth - Somers - Spencer & Butler - Stynes - Sullivan - Walsh

Placenames:

Ashgrove, Kildangan - Ballyfarsoon - Ballyfarsoone - Cloney - Cloney, Athy - Crosskeys, Kildangan - Derryoughta - Derryoughter - Fassaugh, Monasterevan - Grange Moore Abbey, Monasterevan - Kilbeg - Kilberry, Athy - Kildangan - Kill, Monasterevan - Killeen - Kilpatrick - Larch Hill, Monasterevan - Lughill - Old Grange, Monasterevan - Passlands, Monasterevan - Rath School, Queen's Co. - Richardstown - Riverstown - Riverstown, Kildangan - Stramillian

Crosskeys photographs on FLICKR

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88889363@N00/sets/72157600302933545/

The photo below - it's kind of sad, someone remembering their parents but not naming them on the cross

Templeree, County Tipperary

Mon, 21 May 2007 13:57:28 GMT

I have loaded photographs taken in the graveyard at Templeree county Tipperary to my From Ireland website.

This graveyard is currently maintained by the County Council, it is about five miles out from Templehuohy on the Templemore road. It was once a Roman Catholic graveyard, the remains of the old church are in the centre of the site with graves in the body of the church. There are a few yew trees around the church. The gravestones which stand are not all that old, with only a few dating pre 1900. I've tried listing all the surnames as found on the stones below, and as I was creating the list I realised that I have not put some surnames on stone names.

Click on the Templeree link to view the photographs

Templeree Gravestones

Surnames found on the stones

Bannon - Bohan - Bonham - Bourke - Brennan - Buggy - Butler - Byrne - Carroll - Casey - Cassidy - Clarke - Cleary - Cobbs - Collier - Cormack - Cullagh - Cullen - Cussen - Dalton - Davern - Davy (Note: Moloney also on this stone but not on photo name) - Dea - Delahunty - Delaney - Doughan - Dowling - Doyle - Duggan - Dunne - Everard - Fahey - Farrell - Flynn - Fogarty - Foy - Gleeson - Gordon - Grace - Griffin - Grimes - Guider - Guidera - Guynan - Hakes - Hannon - Harrahill - Hennessy - Hickey - Houlihan - Howard - Kearney - Kelly - Kennedy - Kiely - Larkin - Leahy - Lonergan - Looby - Lynch - Mackey - Maher - Marnell - Martin - MArtin - McDonnell - McGrath - Meade - Meagher - Meara - Meehan - Mockler - Moloney - Mooney - Moore - Myrons - Nash - Newman - Nolan - O'Brien - O'Connell - O'Mahony - O'Meara - O'Neill - O'Regan - O'Sullivan - Phelan - Purcell - Quinn - Rusk - Russell - Ryan - Scott - Shanahan - Sheffly - Shelly - Sheridan - Stapleton - Sweeney - Talbot - Taylor - Teehan - Tierney - Treacy - White

Placenames listed on some of the stones: Aughall - Ballinlassa -Ballinroe - Ballyknochane - Ballyknockane, Templetuohy - Ballyleahy - Bayswell, Crosspatrick - Castleleiney - Clonboo - Clonmeen - Cooleeney - Crannagh - Cucuilla - Curraheen, Horse & Jockey - Forest, Templemore - Fortfield, Moyne - Gorteen - Gurteen - Kilcurkee - Killanigan - Knockinroe - Kylemore - Kylina, Templetuohy - Laha - Lisanure - Lisdaleen - Lloydsborough - Longorchard - Manna, Templemore - Skehana - Strogue - Templemore - Templetuohy - Tullowmacjames

Deansgrange Cemetery Dublin 1

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:40:52 GMT

I've decided to load the Deansgrange photographs to my From Ireland web site because I prefer the layout where you can see a group of photos in the album and also because there is no limit on the number of photos I can load at any one time which makes it much easier to deal with what I have from these larger graveyards.

Deansgrange is one of the main cemeteries in Dublin city, it's located on the South side, lying between Dun Laoghaire and Foxrock. It is *very* big to say the least.

This first set of photos is from the Left Hand Side of the graveyard as one goes in through the main gate. The families are most likely non-Catholic and not all of this first section was photographed. There were a fair number of stones which could not be read once photographed and also many which I didn't take any photo of as I knew it wouldn't be possible to read them. Also, there are stones which are covered in ivy and other overgrowth and then there are damaged stones and places where there may have been stones but there aren't any more.

You can check out whatever information I have on graveyards around Dublin by going to the graves link on my Dublin page on the From Ireland web site

http://www.from-ireland.net/contents/dublincontents.htm

and then the Deansgrange Cemetery photos (1) are at

http://www.from-ireland.net/dub/dean/lhs1/index.htm

Jane

http://www.from-ireland.net

Tipperary Co : Templetouhy RC Church & graves

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:00:01 GMT

There are two graveyards in Templetouhy village itself, and then another on the road out to Templemore - that's called Templeree which has Templetouhy people in it. I'm trying to watch the monthly limit on how many photographs I can upload to these pages, so for the moment, of the three graveyards I'm going with the smallest set. That's the set I took of the church and the graves located on the church grounds.

Templetouhy is on a road that goes from County Kilkenny to Templemore in County Tipperary, then another road joins it coming in from Rathdowney in County Laois. So, if you're on your way to Templemore from either Kilkenny or Laois, the church is to be found on a left hand turn off the main village street. You can't miss it, and the local national school is across the road from the church.

There aren't that many graves in the church grounds, a family tomb/enclosed plot to the Lalor /Power family and a few more, plus the priests of the parish

Jane

http://www.from-ireland.net

Surnames on these stones

Burke - Cormack - De La Poer - Dempsey - Hickey - Keating - Keatinge - Kennedy - Lalor & Phelan & Nelson & Power - Lalor
- Murphy - Nelson see Lalor - Phelan see Lalor - Power see Lalor - Sheil

Limerick City : St. Lawrence's : Y-IRL surnames of Interest

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:14:01 GMT

This graveyard is absolutely massive, that's one word to describe it - but then again, the city graveyards always are.

It's also old, unkempt and even a bit scarey to go around on your own. I don't think I'm the only person who would think that, one of the times I was there, I tried to ask an old lady what the name of the graveyard was and she just kept moving on, didn't want to talk to a stranger. OK, she may have been deaf, but even when I was face to face with her I still got the impression that she didn't want to be stopped by any stranger at all.

Anyway, that's just my impression of the place, and I've only ever had that impression in one other graveyard in the past and only in a section of that graveyard - Glasnevin in Dublin.

I have about 400 readable photographs from this graveyard and then probably another 50 which I can't read the names on. It would be hard for me to tell anyone where any particular gravestone was, though I guess I can give it a try based on the times the photographs were taken. I had begun at one section on my first visit and on my second visit decided that it would be better if I went to a different section of the graveyard. I will be back in Limerick some time next month, whether or not I will get back to this graveyard depends and so I'm going to hold off on loading all the photographs for the moment.

The thing is though, I was looking at Bob's Y-IRL surname list this morning and I thought, OK, let's try and begin using these Limerick photographs, let's make a bit more personal for my listers. So, with that in mind I've gone through the primary surname on any photograph and taken those with the surnames that are listed under Limerick on Bob's Y-IRL surname interest list. Y-IRL is an Irish genealogy list that I created on Yahoo and Bob is nice enough to keep track of the surnames that our subscribers are interested in and the county that their ancestors came from.

I've got about 70 photographs, and this can probably be broken down to 33 stones in all. The stones in St. Lawrences tend to be big, you'll be able to see that from the overview photo I am going to put in with the blog, so generally a close up shot had o be taken of the stones, plus lots of them have inscriptions on more than one side

If anyone who reads this is interested in seeing photographs taken around Limerick city, then take a look at my new Irish Sites & Sights blog

Jane

http://irishsitesandsights.blogspot.com/

Surnames found on this set of memorials:

Baker - Bradish see Lahiff - Condon see O'Brien - Fitzgerald & Griffin & Harty - Foran see Kearney - Gray see Ryan - Griffin see Fitzgerald - Harty see Fitzgerald - Hickie see O'Brien - Kearney & Foran - Kennelly - Kirby - Lahiff & Bradish & Moore - Loftus see Ryan - MacNamara - MacNamara see O'Brien - Marshall - McCarthy - McNamara - Molony - Moore see Lahiff - Mullins - O'Brien & Condon & MacNamara & Hickie & Ryan - Quinn - Ryan & Loftus & Gray - Ryan see O'Brien - Sheedy - Troy

Kildare Co: Kilberry Old

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:46:51 GMT

Today, we’re going back to County Kildare, to a place called Kilberry.

Kilberry itself is on the main road to Carlow from Monasterevin in Co. Kildare, the road goes past Athy. It’s probably only a few miles out from Athy, but I came at it from the Monasterevin side accidently as I had missed the turn off I was looking for.

There is a Protestant church on the main road and whilst I did take photographs there, it’s the other set that I am loading now.

The ‘other set’ are photographs from what was the old catholic church (I think) but which is maintained by the County Council now. I say it’s probably the old Catholic church, but there are surnames in there (the older type stones) which if I heard them said I’d immediately think ‘they were Protestants’. So, don’t judge this graveyard as being of any particular religion.

This is another of the church for which just walls exist. It’s at the end of a road which leads into a farmyard. If you do come from Monasterevin and you reach the Kilberry Protestant church then you have gone too far down the road, you’ve missed the turn for this particular church. It’s marked simply as a ‘church’ on Ordnance Survey Discovery Series Map No. 55. Historical sites are always in red script on these maps, so it’s location is easy enough to find on the map itself.

This graveyard is still in use, but there is a notice from the County Council stating that only people who already have plots in this cemetery will be buried here now.

It’s pretty, well kept and peaceful. What was most noticeable about this one compared to others was the number of children buried here – maybe it was because they all seemed to be in the section of the graveyard to the far side of the church body, but for the number of stones they stood out.

I am not including photographs of the stones or memorials to children, except in one instance where the surname does not appear on any stone in this cemetery. There is no first name on this memorial. There is one other stone dedicated to a sixteen year old boy of the surname Dooley. That is not included here. There seemed to be a good few of the metal cross type markers with no names. These photographs will be included with the blog and not in the album

I photographed four stones which I couldn’t read and which are not included here.

Jane : http://www.from-ireland.net/contents/kilcont.htm

Surnames found on these stones:

Cahan & Moran - Chatfield - Cole see Kelly - Connolly see Owens - Dooley - Eustace babies - Fitzpatrick - Grattan & Owen - Hamilton - Hayes & Hutchinson - Hutchinson see Hayes - Johnson - Kane - Keeeife (seems to have three e's) - Kelly & Cole - Lawler & Timpson - Lawlor see Owens - Moran - Moran see Cahan - Murphy - O'Keeffe - Osborne - Owens & Connolly & Lawlor - Owen see - Grattan - Renehan - Smyth - Timpson see Lawler

Clare Co. : Bodyke

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:14:17 GMT

There is not an awful lot to say about this Church and graveyard, it's easy to find, right there on the Main street as you come into the village. It was raining quite a bit but I managed to take shots of most if not all the stones. They are not that old and there is only one 'can't read' photo which I haven't included in the album. It was one of the Priest's stones and if anyone is ever interested in trying to find out who he was, then feel free to contact me and I can send you a copy of the photo.

I didn't take any photos of the surrounding area because it was raining so much when I was that day in November and the light was beginning to fade

Jane

http://www.from-ireland.net/contents/clareconts.htm

Surnames found on these stones : Brady & Ryan - Brooks - Browne & Moloney - Connellan - Cooney - Culligan & Stuart - Curtin & McMahon - Egan - Fahey - Gleeson - Gunning - Hannon see Murphy - Hogan - Kennedy - Liddy - Lynch - Malone - McGrath - McKenna - McMahon see Curtin - Minogue & O'Reilly - Moloney see Browne - Murphy & Hannon - Nash - Noonan - O'Brien - O'Cadhia & White - O'Connell - O'Connor - O'Gorman - O'Grady - O'Reilly see Minogue - Purcell - Rochford - Rodgers - Ryan see Brady - Stuart see Culligan - Walsh - White see O'Cadhia

Kilkenny Co : Ballyhale

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:15:26 GMT

I was down home over the Christmas period and I decided to take myself off to Ballyhale in Co. Kilkenny one day to see if I could find any Gaul/Gaule gravestones for Maureen.........en route I stopped in Bennetsbridge, Knocktopher, Jerpoint Abbey, Thomastown and then Stoneyford on my way back to Kilkenny.

There are bound to be plenty of graveyards in each area other than the one I got to, but on this trip I was working only with a regular Irish road map and not my Ordnance Survey Discovery Series maps which would show me the locations of graveyards. Ballyhale was my destination and so I was concentrating on getting there in plenty of time before the light began to fade which would be sometime around 3-4pm depending on the weather.

The only place that I did find a Gaule headstone was in Ballyhale and as this is where John Gaule and Bridget had their children (or some of them) baptised then this is the set of photos I've chosen to work with first.

Ballyhale is 1.4 miles from Knocktopher graveyard which is only a few miles from the place before it - all by todays roads.

In Ballyhale there were just over 100 stones for which the surnames could be read from the photos I took, and for some of these the surname is all that can be made out without too much trouble. There are also 15 headstones that can't be read at all plus a table tomb, a few flat stones and one which is covered by ivy.

Some of the surnames I am going to list as occurring on these stones are not the primary surname such as Murphy - I'm mentioning Murphy because it's one of the earliest dates here, 1815 and it's on the stone named 'Holohan 1 Murphy Carroll Brennan Plot'. There is also a Murphy stone.

All in all I have loaded about 139 photos. Some of them are for the full stone and then there are close ups of those stones which I didn't think I would be able to read from the main photograph.

There's a little stream beside the church and I've included a photo of that below, plus a shot of the village from behind. It's quite pretty

Jane

http://www.from-ireland.net

SURNAMES on the stones :

Aylward - Barron - Breen -Brennan - Brophy - Butler - Byrne
Cahill -Callaghan - Carr - Carroll - Cleary - Coady - Collins - Comerford -
Connolly - Conway - Corcoran - Costello
Dalton - Davis - Dempsey - Doyle - Drennan - Dwyer
Egan
Fennelly - Fitzpatrick - Fleming - Foley - Fowler
Gaule - Gleeson - Gorey
Hanrahan - Hawe - Hayes - Hession - Hickey - Hoban - Holden - Holohan -
Hoyne
Kearns- Keeffe - Kenneally - Kiely
Laherty - Long
Mackey - Mason - McBride - McDonagh - McDonald - McGrath? - McKenna? -
McStay - Meighan - Moloney - Morrissey - Moynihan - Murphy
O'Brien - O'Connor - O'Donnell - O'Farrell - O'Keeffe - O'Neill - O'Shea -
O'Sullivan - Phelan - Power
Quinlan - Quinn
Reade - Reid - Roche
Sarsfield - Shefflin - Tobin
Walsh - Walshe - Wemyss - Whelan - Williams??

Limerick City : St. Mary's Cathedral Church of Ireland

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:26:05 GMT

Limerick is a city of Churches, Cathedrals and bridges...........finding St. Mary's is easy, you take a left at the first bridge (with five lamps) as you come in on the Dublin road from the Castletroy area - then a right and there you are. I came to it from the Corbally area though - on foot and I didn't stay too long as I was more interested in walking round the city that morning!

The photographs in the album are of all the gravestones in the lower part of the cemetery to the right as you go in the gate. There were stones which I knew for definite that I would not be able to read from photographs which I didn't take and then there were also a number of family plots with just the family name on them.

I've not included the photographs of the Cathedral in the album - they are with this blog as I've decided to create a list with the surnames found on the stones in order to try and make it easier for anyone who is looking for a particular surname in this graveyard. The list is sorted alphabetically and the photographs should be in alphabetical order (or approximately) and so if you are inteested in a name then all you have to do is count how many other surnames occur before it in order to guess as to which number photograph it may be.

For some of the names on the memorials then I've given a 'best guess' when I couldn't be too sure of what the surname is - in these cases I have a 'maybe' after the name. Perhaps those with an inerest in any of these 'maybe' stones might be able to make out the names properly if they give time to editing the photos. Should this ever happen I would appreciate it if the person could let me know - thanks.

Jane

http://www.from-ireland.net

List of names :

Brady
cant' read x 1
Crawford
Ferguson
Gabbett
Geough	(maybe?	/Thompson
Goodbody		/Perry
Hackett
Harding		/Norris
Hassett
Hawker
Hawkins
Ievers	(maybe)	/Norton	(maybe)
Jeffcott
Kelly
Kennedy
Kermode
Kinsman
Luthen
Morley
Norris		/see Harding
Norton	(maybe)	/see Ievers
Owens
Perry		/see Goodbody
Pheeps		/see Thompson
Sandes
Scales
Shaw
Smyth
Stokes
Thompson		/Pheeps
Welply
Whitaker
White