A very sad sight I saw in Cavan town in the park where St Marys Abbey used to stand was a trough filled with shattered headstones. They looked like pieces of a jigsaw but that jigsaw represented people's lives :( Val Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 21, 2015, at 6:54 PM, Janet Morgan via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Thanks Dave and all. > Have seen several graveyards in Fermanagh and the conditions that the headstones were in. ( they had already been photographed) > Was just curious. > Found an old headstone in Newark NJ where the caretaker had to dig up the stone as the cemetery had laid many old ones flat with dirt and grass over them for ease of caring for the cemetery. This did preserve them. > Janet > > Sent from my iPhone > >>

The park in Mary St in Dublin is an old cemetery, they just laid the g/stones down for paths... DH On 22/06/2015 03:33, Valerie Ackroyd via wrote: > A very sad sight I saw in Cavan town in the park where St Marys Abbey used to stand was a trough filled with shattered headstones. They looked like pieces of a jigsaw but that jigsaw represented people's lives:( > > Val --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

I do hope some person transcribed the stones before they were used for paths where footfall wears away the writing more quickly than acid rain. Those stones are usually Sandstone. I saw an example of this vandalism, to my mind, in Keighley, Yorks and spoke to the Minister in charge, who promised to have the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts transcribe what was readable on the stones. I do not know if he kept his promise or not. Viola > > The park in Mary St in Dublin is an old cemetery, they just laid the > g/stones down for paths... >