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Kildare / Re: Downings Graveyard & Other Nearby Ones
« on: Friday 11 March 11 14:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi jml77,
Interestingly I was doing considerable research last year around my family history and I was led to Downings where I have great and great great grand parents buried. I visited this graveyard last July (in the rain).
Let me tell you about it. It is not accessible from the road any more and you must walk through a field to get in. There is about 60-80 graves dating from late 1700's to 1960's perhaps some more recent. It is enclosed by 3 foot loose stone wall. The church that was once there is now no more than three 8 foot walls. Its original floor dimensions would be no more than 10ft X 15ft. (Yes tiny).
Many of the graves have two or even three generations buried in each plot. There are 2 or 3 large trees in the cemetery.
The location of the cemetery is about 2km outside Prosperous heading on the main Allenwood rd. There is a Kildare county council holding on the road and the cemetery is behind the field on the opposite side of the road.
There are 3 main pubs in Prosperous these days, but I cant imagine any of them being older than 100 years (certainly not the buildings they are situated in now, maybe one, cant remember the name, but It could be P.Duggans!?).
However, if you continued past the cemetery, toward Allenwood, about 2 more km you would come to a junction and there is a pub here right on the corner. I am positive that this has been here for well over 100 years and was in my family lines and went out through marriage.
I believe ownership has changed several times in the past 20 years but the common name for it around the area would be 'Dag Welds'.
I can have a root through my notes if you want and see what I have on that time for the pub?
Interestingly I was doing considerable research last year around my family history and I was led to Downings where I have great and great great grand parents buried. I visited this graveyard last July (in the rain).
Let me tell you about it. It is not accessible from the road any more and you must walk through a field to get in. There is about 60-80 graves dating from late 1700's to 1960's perhaps some more recent. It is enclosed by 3 foot loose stone wall. The church that was once there is now no more than three 8 foot walls. Its original floor dimensions would be no more than 10ft X 15ft. (Yes tiny).
Many of the graves have two or even three generations buried in each plot. There are 2 or 3 large trees in the cemetery.
The location of the cemetery is about 2km outside Prosperous heading on the main Allenwood rd. There is a Kildare county council holding on the road and the cemetery is behind the field on the opposite side of the road.
There are 3 main pubs in Prosperous these days, but I cant imagine any of them being older than 100 years (certainly not the buildings they are situated in now, maybe one, cant remember the name, but It could be P.Duggans!?).
However, if you continued past the cemetery, toward Allenwood, about 2 more km you would come to a junction and there is a pub here right on the corner. I am positive that this has been here for well over 100 years and was in my family lines and went out through marriage.
I believe ownership has changed several times in the past 20 years but the common name for it around the area would be 'Dag Welds'.
I can have a root through my notes if you want and see what I have on that time for the pub?