Irish Graveyard place......: Clare

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

Clare County : Kilbane

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:37:45 GMT

Kilbane, Co. Clare...........

On the road to I don't know where - but it's nice, somewhere coming from Cloonlara, maybe oing to Broadford - or was Bodyke the next place I got to.

I can't remember - what I do remember though is that this church and graveyard are up one of these small roads off the real road going to where-ever I was on my way to. No map in hand, I was just following my nose so to speak trying to remember how it was or where I was supposed to go through to get to Tulla in Co. Clare and then I wanted to go on to Galway.

The only thing was, the weather was against me. There were hills all round the scenery was nice........trees, hills - pony walking along by a stream. The signpost for Kilbane is broken in half, not only that it kind of points the wrong way!!

Doesn't matter I guess, I found it and here it is. All the gravestones in this graveyard have been photographed except for a handful which are obviously the most recent. The rain was coming down nice and steady, it wasn't even the misty kind it was the make you very wet kind.

The Holy Water container was interesting, I've never seen something like this before. The church stands on it's own...I took a photo of a boarded up deserted house which looks down on the church.

The graveyard isn't too big, and even though it was raining it wasn't as cold as it came to be a few days later. I was at this graveyard sometime around 1pm so it wasn't too dark either even though the sky was dark with the clouds.

A few photos here and the rest are loaded to the album.

Jane

http://www.from-ireland.net

Clare : Kilfenora to Australia : McNamara

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:28:02 GMT

Donated by Bob Manning in Australia. Michael McNamara's wife is buried at another cemetery, which Bob & Gail will be visiting in the future

MICHAEL McNAMARA

Born 1834 Kilfenora, Co Clare. Died 1922 Armidale, NSW. Australia.