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There's a guard on the gate!

  • 17 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The patchwork stones are even more startling in colour; in 2016 via Stuart Smith.
  • Wendy: said:
    See history of Richmond gate tower
  • Suck Diesel said:
    I suppose that’s its second location, it did move about a bit. The stone is Dublin calp limestone. maps.app.goo.gl/BRfAUrNVjFsbqZcY7?g_st=ic
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At the NIAH: Richmond Tower was originally constructed at the junction of Watling Street and Victoria Quay, and was moved to the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham in 1847 due to traffic congestion caused by the opening of the new railway terminus at Kingsbridge, now Heuston Station. The gateway was named after the Duke of Richmond, Lord Lieutenant (1807-1813), and was designed by Francis Johnston, who was also responsible for alterations to the courtyard and north range of the main Royal Hospital building in the early years of the nineteenth century.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I never knew it had been moved there, here is a Streetview of its original location at Watling St/The Quays as marked on the 1830s 6" OSI.

Field of shattered dreams

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    At least they were marked, unlike the children’s graveyard in an industrial school or cess pit of a mothers and child home
  • beachcomber australia said:
    About 150m South West from Kenmare Stone Circle there is "Killeen Burial Ground (disused)" marked on the 25" map. I wonder if this is the place ?

    "... Dotted across the countryside around us, and throughout Ireland, are the loneliest places on earth. These are the cillíní – the children’s graveyards. A cill (kill) is a monk’s cell or church site, cillín (killeen) is the diminutive and cillíní (killeenee) is the plural: small churches. Ironically, the cillíní despite their names were usually non-church sites. They were burial grounds reserved for unbaptised children (those who died before they could be baptised or were perhaps born out of wedlock), pregnant women (because they were carrying unbaptised children), unrepentant murderers, suicides, shipwreck victims and strangers – anyone, in short, who was not ‘saved’ or whose baptismal status was ambiguous or unknown. They were used into the twentieth century. ... ..."
    From - roaringwaterjournal.com/2013/10/27/unknown-souls/
  • O Mac said:
    The days when limbo wasn't just a dance.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia I hope that is the place. It's good to think of the little graveyard being so close to a stone circle.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    beachcomber australia This likely the correct place, on the bank of the River Finnihy (note spelling) as Killeen is derived from Cellini as you said.
    “It appears that it has taken many years for Ireland to be no longer ashamed of Cillín, possibly facilitated and assisted by the passing of time since 1994 when the Catholic Church lifted the prohibition on unbaptised being buried in consecrated ground

    The Schools Collection of the National Folklore Collection has many references to ‘Cillín’ and ‘Killeen’ which hopefully I will study in the coming weeks. The Irish Examiner noted in 2014 of some Cillíní being brought back and recognised by the community. It is reported that there are 1,444 Cillíní on the island of Ireland – my expectation would have been a significantly greater number”

    readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/remembering-the-cillini-t...

Grave of World War I Soldier Private George Heiniger at Toowong Cemetery Brisbane Queensland 1915

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Trooper George William Heiniger Birth PlaceAustralia: Queensland, Bundaberg, Bundaberg North Death Date21 February 1915 Death PlaceAustralia Final RankTrooper ServiceAustralian Imperial Force UnitLight Horse Depot Places Australia Bundaberg North Conflict/OperationFirst World War, 1914-1918 Roll of Honour: Unit Light Horse Depot Conflict First World War, 1914-1918 Rank Trooper Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10238369