Tullaherin Graveyard (new), Parish of Tullaherin, county Kilkenny

There are two sections to the graveyard at Tullaherin.  This survey relates to the newer part of the graveyard which is divided from the ruined church, round tower and older section of the graveyard by a stone wall.

The old stone style inset into the dividing wall between the old and new graveyard.

The survey of the older graveyard, which we will list separately, will without doubt have some of the same families names that appear this newer section of the graveyard.  Currently are 106 memorials in the new graveyard but this is a graveyard still in use and burials still take place here.  The oldest memorials in this part of the graveyard date from the 1930s and 1940s. There is some overlap though. The older graveyard has many memorials dating from the 18th century but there are some later dates appearing on these memorials in the older part of the graveyard up to the 1940s.  There is a priests section here with 6 memorials to former parish priests. there are also at least 4 memorials to members of the Old IRA; that is men who fought in the War of Independence.  There is an ogham stone in this graveyard.  As always both Bernie and myself have worked together in surveying this site.

Index of names appearing on memorials
Aylward,  Barcoe, Barry, Bennett, Bergin, Blackmore, Bollard, Brennan, Breathanch (Walsh), Burke, Butler, Byrne, Cahalane, Cahill, Carroll,  Cassin, Cass, Cleere, Clinton, Cody, Coleman, Conway, Corcoran, Coyne, Cuddihy, Cullen, Dobbyn, Drennan, Dullard, Dunne, Egan, Farrell, Fennelly, Fitzgerald, Fleming, Galway, Gibbons, Goolay, Greene, Hanrahan, Heskin, Hogan, Holahan, Holden, Holland, Keaney, Kelly, Lawler, Lehane, Lennon, Lyons, Magee, Maher, Malone, McGauren, McGrath, Menzies, Millett, Moran, Moylan, Muldowney, Murphy, Murray, Oliver, O'Brien, O'Connell, O'Connor, O'Donnell. O'Gorman, O'Mahony, O'Neill, O'Reilly,  O'Sullivan,                     O Ciardhubhain, O h-Ulldcaer, Nolan, Phillips, Pierce, Power, Prendergast, Purcell, Reddy, Robinson, Roche, Roe, Ryan, Skehan Somers, Sullivan,  Suton, tobin, Wall, Wallace, Walpole, Walsh, White.

This is part of the dividing wall between the old and newer part of the graveyard. Note the skull carved into the top right hand of the large supporting stone.

Index of places recorded on the memorials
Baile Sugradh, Balinaboola, Ballylinch, Ballymurphy, Barronsland, Beechpark, Bennettsbridge, Bishopslough, Bishoplough House, Blackrock, Browneford, Caran, Castlefield, Castlegarden, Castle Garden, Cloughscegg, Coppenagh, Corbally, county Cork, Crowbally, Cuanogue, Dublin, Dunbell, Dundrum, Dungarven, Fermaagh, Galway, Inistioge, Kilbenny, Kilbline,  Kilfane, Kilfane House, Killarney, Killarney Cross, Kilkenny, Kilmacow, Knockanore, Leap, Maidenhall, Newhouse, Newtown, Rathduff, Sandfield, Stroan, Stoneen, Sugarstown,  Sugartown House, Summershill, Sutton Park, Thomastown, Tullaherin, Woollengrange

Memorial stone inset into the wall recording the unrecorded graves of babies and others in unmarked graves

List of Occupations as recorded on the memorials
Artist,  Doctor, Nun, Old IRA, Priest.
List of masons who signed the memorials
M. Doyle of Carlow, Gargan of Kilkenny, Gargan McDonald of  Kilkenny,  McDonald of Maddoxtown, Mullen of Kilkenny, J Nolan of Ballan, J O'Keeffe of Ballysloe Gorthnahoe, Walsh of Carlow.


The ogham stone at Tullaherin Monastic site.