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SOME OLD IMAGES OF ST PETERS CHURCHYARD IN DROGHEDA

October 19, 2023 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED 20212 BY WILLIAM MURPHY

MY OCTOBER 2023 VISIT TO DROGHEDA

It rained during my visit and upon becoming wet some of the flat table like gravestones became black.

This week I realised that I had not visited Drogheda since 2012 so I decided that it might be a good to get the train to the town and devote a few hours to photographing some of the local churches however I got distracted and did have the time to visit St Pete’s Church Of Ireland churchyard. However, I am planning to visit again later this month or sometime in November [2023]

Within the churchyard of St. Peter’s can be found many interesting and varied funerary monuments. Of these, perhaps the most interesting and visited is a “cadaver stone” taken from the tomb of Sir Edmond Goldyng and his wife Elizabeth Fleming. It is built into the churchyard wall, east of the present building and shows two cadavers enclosed in shrouds which have been partially opened to show the remains of the occupants of the tomb.

Helen M. Roe in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities, 1969 estimates that a date for the tomb would seem to fall within the first quarter of the 16th century. This type of tombstone is part of a fashion widespread in Europe, although relatively rare in Ireland, which explored bodily decomposition and human mortality. This reflected a preoccupation with death arising from the great plague of 1347 to 1350, and subsequent epidemics.

MOUNT JEROME CEMETERY PHOTOGRAPHED JUNE 2023

July 9, 2023 by infomatique

DATE LOGGED BY CAMERA WAS JUNE 2022

I used a Sony RX0 which is not much bigger than a matchbox but I made a mistake when I set the time and date by selecting 2022 instead of 2023. In general I would not recommend this camera as it is very cumbersome to use at the best of times.

The Sony RX is the name of a range of fixed lens compact point-and-shoot digital cameras created by Sony in 2012. All cameras are equipped with Carl Zeiss lenses.
The RX0 was released in 2017. It is a small, tough waterproof camera, with a 1″ sensor. It has a 24mm f4 equivalent Zeiss Tessar T* wide angle lens.

The Funerary Chapel in the cemetery was the first Puginian Gothic church in Dublin. It was designed by William Atkins.

The first official burial happened on the 19th of September 1836. The buried deceased were the infant twins of Matthew Pollock.

The cemetery initially started with a landmass of 26 acres and grew to a size of 48 acres in 1874.

In 1984, burial numbers were falling, thus the Cemetery was losing revenue and began to deteriorate. A crematorium was needed to regain revenue and deal with plant overgrowth on the estate. In 2000, Mount Jerome Cemetery established its own crematorium on the site.

ST FINBARR’S CEMETERY GLASHEEN ROAD

May 20, 2023 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED MAY 2023

CORK CITY AND COUNTY PHOTO BLOG

Saint Finbar, Finbarr, Finnbar, or Finnbarr, in Irish Fionnbharra, very often abbreviated to Barra, (c. 550–25 September 623) was Bishop of Cork and abbot of a monastery in what is now the city of Cork, Ireland. He is patron saint of the city and of the Diocese of Cork. His feast day is 25 September.

I visit this cemetery every trip to Cork City and every time, without fail, it rains. This time I spent about 45 minutes sheltering under thrre or in the public toilet.

St.Finbarr’s municipal cemetery is located at Glasheen Road, Cork City. It is operated by Cork City Council. It opened in 1867, and houses both Roman Catholic and Protestant burials. The cemetery houses the graves of many prominent people and it is also the location of the Republican Plot which houses the remains of many of those killed in the War of Independence/Anglo-Irish War 1919-1921 and the Civil War 1922-1923, such as Tomás MacCurtain, Terence MacSwiney, and Tadhg Barry.

The digitisation of the 1867 to 1896 burial register was carried out with funding from Cork City Council and the Creative Ireland Programme, in 2017. The digitisation of the 1896 – 1930 burial registers has been carried out with funding from the Cork City Council 1920-1923 commemorative programme, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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SAINT FIN BARRE’S CATHEDRAL IN CORK CITY

May 19, 2023 by infomatique

CHURCH OF IRELAND

This was a disappointing session and to make matters worse my two spare batteries proved to be exhausted. I did not realise that it was possible to take photographs by touching the screen and every few seconds the camera took random photographs … I do not know how the camera defaulted to this setting but it drained the battery at a rapid rate and I ended up with lots of unusable and random images.

The church grounds are south of the River Lee on Holy Island, on one of the many inlets forming the Great Marsh of Munster (Corcach Mor na Mumhan). Saint Fin Barre’s is on the site of at least two previous church buildings, each dedicated to Fin Barre of Cork, patron saint of Cork city and founder of the monastic hermitage at Gougane Barra.

Finbarr was born in about 550. He was, by legend, given Gougane Barra as a place of contemplation, and visited Cork city to lay the foundation stones for the “one true Christian faith”.[3] According to tradition, after Finbarr died his remains were brought to Cork to be enclosed in a shrine near the site of today’s cathedral.

Archaeological evidence suggests the first site at Fin Barre’s probably dates from the 7th century, and consisted of a church and round tower that survived until the 12th century, after which it fell into neglect, or was destroyed during the Norman invasions.

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ST AUDOEN’S CHURCH AND ADJACENT PUBLIC PARK

February 13, 2023 by infomatique

CORNMARKET DUBLIN

It appears that there are at least two different spellings: St. Audeon and St. Audoen. Anyway, St Ouen (or Audoen) of Rouen (Normandy) lived in the seventh century.

St. Audeon’s Park sits alongside St. Audoen’s Church at Cornmarket in Dublin city centre. The park features Dublin’s original stone walls and the last surviving entrance to the old city (St. Audoen’s Gate).

Before the renovation, the park was not well used and was regularly closed to the public. A consultation process was carried out to determine community perception and factors that had caused the park to fail as a public space. Antisocial behaviour was the main factor which had resulted in the local school feeling that the park was unsafe for children to use.

The objective of this renovation was to give the park back to the city and community, increasing its use and revealing its presence right in the heart of the old city. Simple day-to-day concerns were addressed by design such as the removal of overshadowing vegetation locally to improve sight lines and a very generous provision of new seating. This addressed a common concern arising from consultation around the use and comfort of the park as a destination and place within which to dwell for longer periods.

By reinvigorating the park through design and breaking down obstacles to accessibility, St. Audoens Church has gained a renewed presence in the park. This has substantially increased visitor numbers which in turn renders the park safer. It also provides a beautiful setting for church ceremonies, with the park now used for wedding celebrations. The park facilitates a good balance of tourist and local visitors.

St Audoen’s Church is the church of the parish of Saint Audoen in the Church of Ireland, located south of the River Liffey at Cornmarket in Dublin, Ireland. This was close to the centre of the medieval city. The parish is in the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough. St Audoen’s is the oldest parish church in Dublin and is still used as such. There is a Roman Catholic church of the same name adjacent to it.