Here Lies: A Guide to Irish Graves"Maeve Friel takes her readers down remote country lanes and up windswept hills to visit the graves of more than 500 of Ireland's famous, infamous, heroic, tragic and eccentric dead." --Back cover. |
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Page 92
... churchyard is the unmarked grave of William Nevison , or Swift Nix , an infamous English highwayman who had fled to Ireland to escape arrest , lived in the now ruined seventeenth century house at Bishopscourt , and died in 1688 ...
... churchyard is the unmarked grave of William Nevison , or Swift Nix , an infamous English highwayman who had fled to Ireland to escape arrest , lived in the now ruined seventeenth century house at Bishopscourt , and died in 1688 ...
Page 122
... churchyard of the now ruined old church in St Patrick's churchyard in Wexford city ( key available at Municipal Buildings ) where there are many other graves of men who died in the rebellion . Many more United Irishmen are buried in St ...
... churchyard of the now ruined old church in St Patrick's churchyard in Wexford city ( key available at Municipal Buildings ) where there are many other graves of men who died in the rebellion . Many more United Irishmen are buried in St ...
Page 141
... churchyard , between Baltimore and Skibbereen on the seaward side of the road , lies the body of Major Hugh Parker , an English Commissioner of Relief . The stone on the table tomb tells us that he " died of a fever contracted in the ...
... churchyard , between Baltimore and Skibbereen on the seaward side of the road , lies the body of Major Hugh Parker , an English Commissioner of Relief . The stone on the table tomb tells us that he " died of a fever contracted in the ...
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1798 rebellion Abbey Achill ancient Armagh Ballitore battle became Bishop body British burial place buried in St Captain captured carved Castle cathedral Catholic Celtic cemetery century Church of Ireland churchyard coffin commemorates Connacht Cork County Creggan cross dead Deansgrange death Dermot Derry died Dublin emigrants Emmet's English epitaph erected executed famine father Fenian Fianna Fáil Frank O'Connor Gaelic Gaelic League Glasnevin gravestone graveyard grounds Gweedore hanged headstone Henry Hill inscribed inscription Irish island James John Kilkenny killed King land later Limerick lived Lord Lough Mary mausoleum memorial Michael miles monument murder Newgrange Norman O'Brien Patrick plaque plot poem poet President of Ireland priest rebellion remains returned to Ireland ruined Saint Sean ship Sinn Féin Skibbereen slab St Patrick's St Patrick's Cathedral stone story Thomas tomb tombstone Ulster United Irishmen vault victims wall Waterford Wexford Wicklow wife William wrote Yeats young