Dear friends of Beara, This article just came in from Irish Genealogy News: --- Begin Cited Text --- Skibbereen Heritage Centre has uploaded some 2,350 burial register transcriptions for 16 West Cork graveyards (see names, locations and dates in table below) to its West Cork Graveyards Database. The information provided includes name, age and address of the deceased, dates of death and burial and, in some cases, occupation of the deceased. The registers were made available by Cork County Council, who are now responsible for each of the graveyards, and were transcribed by a small team of Skibbereen Heritage Centre volunteers. This upload almost doubles the size of the free-to-access database. It already held around 2,700 records collected as a result of surveys carried out in eleven local graveyards. The surveys involved photographing and transcribing the headstones, mapping the graves, and gathering any local knowledge of each graveyard and those buried within. The database holds the transcriptions and links to photos of the memorials. A further survey has recently been undertaken at Kilcoe (new) graveyard, and these records have also been uploaded to the database. Transcribed registers in West Cork Graveyard Database Abbeymahon Graveyard Skibbereen May 1900-October 1975 Abbeystrowry Graveyard Skibbereen March 1934-Sept 1943 & Oct 1963-June 1965 Allihies Graveyard Castletownbere June 1990-April 1992 Ardagh Graveyard Rosscarbery May 1991-December 2009 Ballymoney Graveyard Ballineen June 1961-June 1998 Ballynacallagh Graveyard Dursey Island October 1935-May 1988 Castlehaven Graveyard Castletownshend March 1934-June 1967 Drimoleague Graveyard Drimoleague April 1963-April 1969 Durrus Graveyard Durrus June 1989-June 1995 Fanlobbus Graveyard Dunmanway March 1960-September 1994 Kilbarry Graveyard Dunmanway March 1960-May 1993 Kilcaskan Graveyard Adrigole no dates on entries Kilmacabea Graveyard Leap March 1934-February 1968 Milltown Rathbarry Graveyard Ardfield September 1944-January 1947 Tullagh Graveyard Baltimore January 1900-December 1973 Whiddy Island Bantry Bay February 1935-October 1980 Posted by Claire Santry, Irish Genealogy News --- End Cited Text --- I would imagine the Allihies graveyard entries would be of particular interest to some of us. To look up a particular burial, or to browse the database, go to http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Search.aspx Bill Gawne