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 67
... wife of Dermot MacMurrough , the king who had sought the help of the Normans and whose daughter Aoife married Strongbow . Down in the crypt , there are several interesting monuments placed there when the cathedral was undergoing ...
... wife of Dermot MacMurrough , the king who had sought the help of the Normans and whose daughter Aoife married Strongbow . Down in the crypt , there are several interesting monuments placed there when the cathedral was undergoing ...
Page 111
... wife of King Henry VIII . The huge limestone slab which is over eight feet long and a foot thick was discovered in 1803 by workmen excavating stones when building the nearby canal . It reads : here under leys Elisabeth and Mary Bullyn ...
... wife of King Henry VIII . The huge limestone slab which is over eight feet long and a foot thick was discovered in 1803 by workmen excavating stones when building the nearby canal . It reads : here under leys Elisabeth and Mary Bullyn ...
Page 237
... wife was killed in the commotion . To lose one wife in such circumstances would be bad enough but worse was to come ... MacNaghten began to court Mary Anne Knox , the fifteen - year - old niece of Andrew Knox , MP for Donegal . He ...
... wife was killed in the commotion . To lose one wife in such circumstances would be bad enough but worse was to come ... MacNaghten began to court Mary Anne Knox , the fifteen - year - old niece of Andrew Knox , MP for Donegal . He ...
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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