Bob asks: === are there any cemeteries in Loughrea? and if so, how many. === Bob, In her letter, I think Jean may have been referring to Brian Mitchell's 1990 book. "A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards". It's quite useful, but by no means complete. But at least, it should give you a minimum of cemeteries in a given location - there may be others. For Loughrea, this book shows a graveyard attached to the RC church in Abbey Lane, a cemetery at St. Bridget's on The Hill (no church listing there), a C of I church with graveyard on Church Lane and an RC church (no graveyard listing) on Bride Street. Mitchell has the following advice regarding non-RC graveyards: "Generally, Church of Ireland graveyards should be examined irrespective of an ancestor's religion." There is a separate graveyard in Loughrea civil parish, in the townland of St. Laurencesfields, which lies immediately west of Loughrea town. From the Discovery map 52, a large enclosed area is shown in the townland, less than a mile from downtown Loughrea (a good place to avoid - the traffic's a killer......although there is a bypass now, so it may be not so bad). There is also a cilli/n (a childrens' burial ground) shown within this enclosure. I would imagine that this is the major town burial ground. Pete - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>

Hi Pete - Yes - that is the reference book I was thinking of. Thanks for sharing! Are you in a deep freeze over there where you live? I've also heard that in some instances Catholics were buried in Protestant graveyards. If you definitely know where your kin lived, check out this resource: http://www.valoff.ie/Genealogy.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <PeteScherm@aol.com> To: <RTENNIHAN@aol.com>; <ireland@rootsweb.com>; <jeanrice@cet.com> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [IRELAND] Looking for Cemetery in Ireland > Bob asks: > > === are there any cemeteries in Loughrea? and if so, how many. === > > Bob, > > In her letter, I think Jean may have been referring to Brian Mitchell's > 1990 > book. "A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards". It's quite useful, but > by > no means complete. But at least, it should give you a minimum of > cemeteries in > a given location - there may be others. <snip>