Sunday 9 February 2020

Mullinavat Parish Church and Graveyard dedicated to St Beacon





 

 In the words of William Butler Yeats "a bee loud glade'  a tiny space in the Parish Graveyard of Mullinavat co Kilkenny
  








This beautiful little herb garden commemorates the sad loss of a little girl BlanĂ id with generations of her relatives. What a joy it was to come on the little space which was always alive with bees and butterflies, and the scent of herbs and flowers.












We were recording here last autumn before the weather put an end to our endeavours.  This is a very historic place and the Catholic graveyard enormous; so far we have transcribed about 280 memorials but there is more to come.  Everyday here was an exciting project for us and we will be out again shortly when the weather works with us.  This graveyard has important headstones including one commemoration James Scurry (1790-1828), the south Kilkenny Irish scholar. His headstone has part of the inscription in Ogham.  The earliest stones seem to date from circa 1800/1810.   Older and very ornate memorials may be found in the graveyard of Kilbeacon which is just across the road from from this graveyard.  We will also be including Kilbeacon is our work as the same families are recorded in both graveyards.  Thanks to Father Barron, the Parish Priest, we have also been able to record the memorials inside the church.    




6 comments:

  1. Where can I find the transcriptions for Mullinavat?

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    1. https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000635387#page/125/mode/1up

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  2. Thank you for your work here. I will be looking forward to seeing more photos and records; our families emigrated to Illinois, in America, but this was their home parish.

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  3. Thank you for your work. I am from a brach of Barrons who emigrated to Newfoundland in 1798. I would like to be able to contact you. My ancestor is Laurence Barron, baptized Waterford, St. Patricks and St. Olaf's 1787, mother Eleanor Walsh, father John Barron. kevin.barron@mac.com

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  4. Thank you so much for your work. My ancestor James Grant left the area in 1850 out of the port of Waterford for the U.S. I see it only goes back to 1842. I believe the middle initial is D.

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  5. I believe I’m a descendant of James Scurry. I’m here in Illinois in the United States. Hope to visit there one day to see his gravestone.

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