Irish Graveyard place......: Limerick

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

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

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