STREET ART AND GRAFFITI ON CAMDEN ROW

CAMDEN ROW A HISTORIC AREA

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The street art is not exceptional but the area is historic and is worth a visit. There was a St. Kevin's Church in what is now St. Kevin's Park across the street from the images in my photographs at least as far as the 13th century. After the Reformation, it became an Anglican Church. The original church was replaced around 1750 by a new one, closed in 1912 and now in ruins.[Both churches were dedicated to Kevin of Glendalough. Note: There is also a Catholic St. Kevin's Church a short distance away on Harrington Street.

During the 17th and 18th centuries many notable people resident in the suburbs south of the city were interred here. After the Reformation, although a Protestant cemetery, it had come by custom to be used by Catholics and the Quakers.

At the start of the 19th century the cemetery became a target of the body-snatchers, although it was surrounded by high walls at the time. In February 1830 a Frenchman named Nagles and his friend were attacked by a group of "sack-em-ups" lying in wait near the cemetery. The criminals' attention was diverted by the arrival of a cart-load of dead bodies, giving Nagles the opportunity to escape and notify the police at Arran Quay, who apprehended the culprits. On one occasion a body-snatcher was chased as far as Thomas Street, where he finally dropped his booty—the body of a young girl.

In June 1961 the body of a local five-year-old boy Tommy Powell from Cuffe Street was found in the graveyard on a llood-stained stone
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