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Old Clody Cemetery

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  • 31-10-2017 11:14pm
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    JohnSutton
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    Greetings! I am planning a trip to find the graves of my ancestors, and I have reason to believe that some may be buried at a cemetery called "Old Clody". At first I believed that Old Clody referred to the cemetery at Cloydagh Church, but now I suspect that the church and cemetery I'm looking for are no longer in use and possibly in ruins. Is anyone aware of the location of Old Clody? Directions or GPS coordinates would be greatly appreciated!


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    Ken.
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057049430

    This might help you John.


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    JohnSutton
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    Hi, thanks very much for sharing that thread. I think the church and cemetery I'm looking for are different from the Cloydagh church, however. From what I've learned in the last day or so, I think the place I'm looking for is somewhere around GPS coordinates 52.803522, -6.981874. I don't see an obvious building there on Google Earth, but some other sources suggest that the church may be in ruins.


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    Vetch
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    The location of the church in ruins and graveyard is on the older Ordnance Survey maps and Griffith's Valuation map, which are online.


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    JohnSutton
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    Thank you for the suggestion! I checked the Griffith's Valuation map and it appears that the ruined church and cemetery are indeed at the coordinates I suspected.


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    iwillhtfu
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    JohnSutton wrote: »
    Thank you for the suggestion! I checked the Griffith's Valuation map and it appears that the ruined church and cemetery are indeed at the coordinates I suspected.

    I've been down that way before and it's fairly over grown but I managed to get the MTB down there so you should be able to hike in no bother. I don't recall seeing a church or signs of a graveyard but the trees are dense.


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    Vetch
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    iwillhtfu wrote: »
    I've been down that way before and it's fairly over grown but I managed to get the MTB down there so you should be able to hike in no bother. I don't recall seeing a church or signs of a graveyard but the trees are dense.

    The church was already in ruins when the Ordnance Survey maps were being drawn up in 1839 and gravestones might have fallen down. There's a description of the church from page 235 onwards here http://www.askaboutireland.ie/aai-files/assets/ebooks/OSI-Letters/CARLOW_14%20B%2014.pdf


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    iwillhtfu
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    Vetch wrote: »
    The church was already in ruins when the Ordnance Survey maps were being drawn up in 1839 and gravestones might have fallen down. There's a description of the church from page 235 onwards here http://www.askaboutireland.ie/aai-files/assets/ebooks/OSI-Letters/CARLOW_14%20B%2014.pdf

    I'll keep a better eye out next time I'm down that way.


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