Interesting, where I live in Lancaster and or Chester Co Pennsylvania we still bury mostly in church yards <G> there are big Memorial Parks but mostly they are where Philadelphia folks go and I had never thought about it until your message. Many cemeteries in Philly and surrounding towns have been built over, heavily in the mid 50's and 60's. Bones from the earliest burials were exhumed and taken to the big suburban memorial park and stored in a 6 bay barn, (if you know what I mean) Full to the rafters and interred in a mass grave. Even small towns have been building over their cemeteries so how could Dublin hold on to theirs? Eliz On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Adele Pentony-Graham <pentonygraham@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > Could someone please let me know, if the early burials say from 1800 > onwards, would the dead have been buried in a church yard or would they have > been buried in a cemetery in Dublin, and if in Dublin, would the grave be in > areas, like Roman Catholic or Church of England etc? > > > > Are the cemeteries or burial areas on line please? > > > > Here in New Zealand, the local burials from 1866s were in a cemetery, but it > various from town to town or city to city. some towns have Cemeteries.. I > know before the first cemetery was built, the locals buried the dead on > their property, some people had a private cemetery on their land as well.. > > > > So much can be learn by reading a headstone, so they are worth searching > for! > > > > I am always interested in my maiden name, PENTONY. I would love a trip to > Eire and trace my roots.. > > > Thank you > > > > Adele > > Clareville Taphophile (ah Taphophile means someone interested in headstones) > > ****************************** > Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in County Dublin, Ireland and the City of Dublin. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Adele, On the other hand, my experience has been that Deansgrange Cemetery in Dun Laoghaire, south of Dublin city, remains unencroached up. Look at it on Google Earth. My ancestors, father Andrew Plunkett and his infant son Andrew, were buried there in 1888 and 1886. I bought the grave site back in the 1980's, and now my cousin and I are getting ready to erect a grave marker, with the help of the cemetery officials. The grave site had not been cared for over the years, but it remains undisturbed. So this cemetery, at least, endures. Maybe you can get the names of Dublin cemeteries that interest you and then look at them with Google Earth to see if there are signs of encroachment. PJ, in Texas > Interesting, where I live in Lancaster and or Chester Co Pennsylvania > we still bury mostly in church yards <G> there are big Memorial Parks > but mostly they are where Philadelphia folks go and I had never > thought about it until your message. > > Many cemeteries in Philly and surrounding towns have been built over, > heavily in the mid 50's and 60's. Bones from the earliest burials were > exhumed and taken to the big suburban memorial park and stored in a 6 > bay barn, (if you know what I mean) Full to the rafters and interred > in a mass grave. Even small towns have been building over their > cemeteries so how could Dublin hold on to theirs? > > > > Eliz > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Adele Pentony-Graham > <pentonygraham@xtra.co.nz> wrote: >> Could someone please let me know, if the early burials say from 1800 >> onwards, would the dead have been buried in a church yard or would they >> have >> been buried in a cemetery in Dublin, and if in Dublin, would the grave >> be in >> areas, like Roman Catholic or Church of England etc? >> >> >> >> Are the cemeteries or burial areas on line please? >> >> >> >> Here in New Zealand, the local burials from 1866s were in a cemetery, >> but it >> various from town to town or city to city. some towns have Cemeteries.. >> I >> know before the first cemetery was built, the locals buried the dead on >> their property, some people had a private cemetery on their land as >> well.. >> >> >> >> So much can be learn by reading a headstone, so they are worth searching >> for! >> >> >> >> I am always interested in my maiden name, PENTONY. I would love a trip >> to >> Eire and trace my roots.. >> >> >> Thank you >> >> >> >> Adele >> >> Clareville Taphophile (ah Taphophile means someone interested in >> headstones) >> >> ****************************** >> Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in County >> Dublin, Ireland and the City of Dublin. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ****************************** > Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in County > Dublin, Ireland and the City of Dublin. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >