Limerick Data

Beyond the Grave (LM&A)

Limerick Museum and Archives (LM&A) in partnership with Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, will be hosting a three day conference on the theme of death and burial in Ireland (April 25th to 27th 2014).

LM&A and the Geography and History Departments of Mary Immaculate College, have been working for almost three years on a joint project to digitise the records of Mount St. Lawrence Cemetery and to showcase its historic importance to the city of Limerick.

We wish to launch our two main projects: a searchable map of this eighteen acre burial ground and a comprehensive history of the cemetery.

We will be launching these projects over a weekend long conference in Limerick, where we look at all aspects of death and burial in Ireland.

This conference is for all who are interested in this area of our heritage bridging the gap between academic and non-academic, the experts and non-experts.

This conference will take place throughout Limerick City with the Friday event taking place in City Hall, the Saturday lectures in Mary Immaculate College and the Sunday event will take place in various sites across the city.

Searchable Map of Mount St Lawrence Cemetery

Browse through an interactive map of grave markers at Mount St Lawrence Cemetery. Each grave marker has been photographed and can be searched by name

In 2012 following on from the successful Mount Saint Lawrence transcribed Burial Register Transcriptions , Limerick City Archives and the staff and students of the History and Geography Departments of Mary Immaculate College began mapping and transcribing the 7,000+ gravemarkers in this historic cemetery.

The older longitude and latitude system used on the Original Burial Register was not suitable for the headstone mapping process. A new mapping process was introduced each gravemarker was given a unique identifier based first by section, then by row from the front gate back, and finally by grave marker working from left to right in each section. Then each grave marker was given a GPS location for each grave marker is linked to a photograph and memorial data for each headstone.

To date, April 2014, each grave marker has been photographed and is available to view by reference number or can be searched by the first surname recorded on the memorial. Sections A-H have been transcribed and these can be searched for individuals by name and year of death. There are 12,000+ individuals on this database.