Insights
In the summer of 1832, cholera moved through Ireland with the speed of a trade-borne disaster. Limerick, a crowded river port, suffered badly as the outbreak…
An anchor is an immediately recognisable maritime emblem, yet on a headstone it becomes more than a record of sea work. Coastal cemeteries grew around…
At the edge of Abbeyleix in County Laois, formerly Queen’s County, a high stone boundary preserves a compact family cemetery beside the ruins and later parish…
The churchyard of St Brendan’s in Ardfert, on County Kerry’s Dingle Peninsula, contains one of Ireland’s richest concentrations of early medieval stone…
White bronze grave markers of the late nineteenth century carry a name that can mislead. Most were not conventional copper-rich bronze, but cast, high-zinc…
John O’Donovan’s grave in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, marks the final resting place of the scholar whose transcriptions rescued thousands of words, poems and…
Westport House in County Mayo is more than the elegant country house seen on many visitor postcards. Its history is tied to the Browne family, the development…
At the southwestern edge of County Kerry, where the Dingle Peninsula meets the Atlantic, Dunquin is both a working harbour village and a place of remembrance.…
At the heart of Inishmore’s monastic ruins lies a recessed burial ground where grave slabs, kerbs and carved crosses share the exposed limestone surface. The…
A skull and an hourglass on an early modern tomb slab can communicate a surprisingly complex meditation on mortality. Their compact forms turn carved stone…