A question, from an ignorant American. All of the graves seem to be fairly recent. What happened to earlier burials? Older graveyards? Our local cemeteries in Michigan go back to the 1850's and I'm sure I've seen earlier gravestones on our travels. Have the stones been re-used? melted away from acid-rain? or no-one thought it necessary to mark the graves since "everyone" knew where they were? --- On Wed, 7/2/08, hiflyte <hiflyte@telus.net> wrote: > From: hiflyte <hiflyte@telus.net> > Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] Mevagh Church Graveyard - Cty Donegal > To: "IRL-CO-Donegal" <IRL-CO-DONEGAL-L@rootsweb.com>, "IRL-Donegal - List" <IRL-DONEGAL-L@rootsweb.com>, "IRL-Donegaleire-L" <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:54 AM > List Members, > > Another gem from our roving Irish reporter --- > > Siobhán, Gallagher has contributed the cemetery file for > Mevagh Church > Graveyard in Cty Donegal. > > "Mevagh Church Graveyard is located on Co. Donegal’s > northern coastline > on an > unnamed road (unnamed according to my GPS anyway), along > the signposted > Atlantic > Drive in Rosapenna, GPS coordinates N55.21062, > W7.81094" > > I wish to thank Siobhán for this addition to the website. > > You can view the file at: > http://tinyurl.com/57w5zv > > The file will be uploaded to the IGPA /Donegal website --- > soon. > http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ > > Have a nice day > Bob > Cdn > > When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific > text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the > digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the > subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message > subject to which you are replying. > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED > ARCHIVES AT > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ > > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE > SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES AT > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE > > > SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: > Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ > Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ > Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DONEGALEIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Jane, Re: No OLD pre: 1800's grave stones to be seen in old Irish cemeteries. I noticed that as well. My people came over to America c.1848 so we have grave stones here in America - New York - Boston - Portland Maine. Would love to see really OLD markers in Ireland. Erin Go Bragh! Judy Corbin Smith, stdomincics@verizon.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Ward" <janemar1e@yahoo.com> To: "IRL-CO-Donegal" <IRL-CO-DONEGAL-L@rootsweb.com>; "IRL-Donegal - List" <IRL-DONEGAL-L@rootsweb.com>; "IRL-Donegaleire-L" <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com>; "hiflyte" <hiflyte@telus.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Mevagh Church Graveyard - Cty Donegal >A question, from an ignorant American. > All of the graves seem to be fairly recent. What happened to earlier > burials? Older graveyards? > Our local cemeteries in Michigan go back to the 1850's and I'm sure I've > seen earlier gravestones on our travels. > Have the stones been re-used? melted away from acid-rain? or no-one > thought it necessary to mark the graves since "everyone" knew where they > were? > > > --- On Wed, 7/2/08, hiflyte <hiflyte@telus.net> wrote: > >> From: hiflyte <hiflyte@telus.net> >> Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] Mevagh Church Graveyard - Cty Donegal >> To: "IRL-CO-Donegal" <IRL-CO-DONEGAL-L@rootsweb.com>, "IRL-Donegal - >> List" <IRL-DONEGAL-L@rootsweb.com>, "IRL-Donegaleire-L" >> <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:54 AM >> List Members, >> >> Another gem from our roving Irish reporter --- >> >> Siobhán, Gallagher has contributed the cemetery file for >> Mevagh Church >> Graveyard in Cty Donegal. >> >> "Mevagh Church Graveyard is located on Co. Donegal’s >> northern coastline >> on an >> unnamed road (unnamed according to my GPS anyway), along >> the signposted >> Atlantic >> Drive in Rosapenna, GPS coordinates N55.21062, >> W7.81094" >> >> I wish to thank Siobhán for this addition to the website. >> >> You can view the file at: >> http://tinyurl.com/57w5zv >> >> The file will be uploaded to the IGPA /Donegal website --- >> soon. >> http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ >> >> Have a nice day >> Bob >> Cdn >> >> When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific >> text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the >> digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the >> subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message >> subject to which you are replying. >> >> TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED >> ARCHIVES AT >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ >> >> >> TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE >> SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES AT >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE >> >> >> SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: >> Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ >> Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ >> Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DONEGALEIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > > > > When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you > are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, > remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the > message subject to which you are replying. > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED ARCHIVES AT > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ > > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES > AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE > > SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: > Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ > Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ > Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DONEGALEIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message