Clonmel graveyards Search Facility

hellbent

www.clonmelgraveyards.com is a website dedicated (mainly) to locating graves within the current cemetery, St. Patrick's, CLONMEL, CO. Tipperary. There is a full search system for graves there, whether by surname, by year or by section of graveyard. The list is limited to names on all the readable headstones, from which the listing was obtained. Nevertheless, there are over 7000 individual records, and about 3500 images.

Old St. Mary's, in Mary St., has now been added, also with a full search system, but not aimed at precisely finding the headstone, more as a general source of information.

Listings of Marlfield and the Society of Friends (Quaker) graveyards are also there, without images as of now, but there will be included in coming weeks and months.

hellbent

Marlfield graveyard is now added to the search facility at www.clonmelgraveyards.com.
As with the other graveyards already there, you can view headstone images where available, and conduct your search in several ways.

pinkypinky

Fantastic work! I've found a pile of people I'm looking for for my college project.

kilsmum

Has anyone used irishfamilyresearch.co.uk? Looking for much the same as the Clonmel project- gravestone inscriptions in the Cork area - I have been to the cemeteries that I am sure in two cases my ancestors are buried (burials in 1964, 1966) but some of the stones are impossible to read and where there is a record of the person being buried the register did not record the actual plot.

I also have the problem where I know the cemetery my great grandmother was buried she was buried with relations of hers, I don't know their name but could take a stab at the family name so maybe Im looking for the impossible!

irishfamilyresearch.co.uk covers the cemeteries Im interested in but the site looks a bit raw - any feedback would be very much appreciated

Kilsmum

hellbent

kilsmum wrote: »

... but some of the stones are impossible to read and where there is a record of the person being buried the register did not record the actual plot.

If you get to go back to these cemeteries in the future to examine the hard-to -read headstones, try going there early in the morning, on a sunny! day, with the sun barely lighting the face of the headstone. At that time, the carvings are still in shadow, and its amazing how much more readable they are. What appears totally blank on a dull day - or later in the day- often is almost fully legible at this time.

Best of all is to take hi-res photos with a digital camera, and blow them up on your PC, in the comfort of your home. Especially remember to take some kind of note of the location of these headstones.

kilsmum

Thanks very much Hellbent - will do!

Kilsmum;)

hellbent

Searchable records for St. Stephen's Graveyard, (Connolly Park), Clonmel, have now been added to the website. Images are included where they could be matched to the existing records.

www.clonmelgraveyards.com