"Kilmurry-Ibrickane Church Ruins & Graveyard" (9Feb2024) Serenity Sue

Extract from County Clare Heritage:
"According to a local historian with fantastic knowledge of the area, the local landlord demanded that the bodies were dug up and moved in order to accommodate the construction of the road. This means that the graveyard was in existence before the road.
Griffiths Valuation of Tenements shows that Charles McDonnell was the landlord of Kilmurry in 1855. One could suppose he was the landlord who made this order to inter the remains of the deceased & to install this road for his personal use. But because we don’t have any earlier records I cannot verify this as a fact.
Unfortunately, the Down survey maps of 1711 were destroyed in a fire and so we do not know the size of the graveyard in the 1700s. I find this story harrowing & can’t begin to imagine the upset it cause the surviving relatives."
Original Source Video:
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