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Field of shattered dreams

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • 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...

There's a hole in the roof, and the rain's coming through

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    the Catalogue says View of the house where Edgar Allen Poe grandparents lived, Toumeregan & Kildallon, Co. Cavan.

    Kildallan and Tomregan are both townlands in Cavan, but some distance (20km) apart.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Wikipedia Their grandfather, David Poe, had emigrated from County Cavan, Ireland, around 1750., references a book Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (1941):

    Dismissing as without foundation the mythical tales which connect Edgar Poe with noble families of Europe, it seems certain that his great-great-grandfather was David Poe, a tenant-farmer in Dring, in the parish of Kildallon and County Cavan, Ireland, who died in 1742. David's son, John Poe, emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1749 or 1750,(29) having married Jane McBride, daughter, it is [page 14:] possible, though not certain, of a clergyman, Reverend Robert McBride, and sister of an admiral of the Blue, John McBride. After living for a time in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, John Poe moved to Baltimore, where he died in 1756.

    John's eldest son, David, had been born in Ireland in 1742 or 1743. He carried on his business of making spinning wheels and clock reels, on Market Street in Baltimore from 1775.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Dring townland is next to Kildallan, and I count maybe 10 possible houses on the 1830s 6", although that is 80 years after David Poe left.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Having eyeballed the Google aerial view of Dring, I do not think this ruin is still there. (Of course, it may never have been in the actual townland marked as Dring.)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    More Googling: "David Poe's will, dated August 25, 1742, described him as of 'Dring Parish of Kildallon, County Cavan, Farmer. In the old vestry book of Kildallon, he is mentioned as the overseer of roads in the parish. The ruin is of a substantial house, and Poe sounds like a Big Cheese, perhaps this is the building marked as Dring Ho. which was here: Streetview

Have you seen that "Whatsit" in Lixnaw?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    2020 plans to rebuild - www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40015436.html#:~
    " ... A 50ft high mausoleum made of black limestone was erected in 1690 by the 20th Lord of Kerry, William Fitzmaurice, at a burial site for the Fitzmaurice clan members.

    It stood on top of Killbinane Hill, near Lixnaw, until 1958 when it was dynamited to smithereens by Kerry County Council, who wanted to use the stone for road building. ... "
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Knockanure Site
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looks like the little hill has been quarried to buggagery.
    Streetview - maps.app.goo.gl/FxDzSQh1NBGB8vuPA
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Boooo, Kerry County Council! Sadly adding to No Longer Standing album... :(
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons There seems to be something, maybe foundations, still there via the Google satellite. Field Trip required, with a picnic and appropriate refreshment.
    maps.app.goo.gl/Vo261mPrKUozKnUz7