gallery graves ireland

Carrowkeel, in the Bricklieve hills, is an ancient cemetery of circular mounds dating from the late Stone Age (2500-200BC).

There are some splendid views from the exposed hilltop site....

Glenballyeamon :- "Eamon's townland Glen", here you can find traces of the Glen's ancient forts....

This area has strong connections with the Anglo-Norman Agnew family, and the cemetery has many stones of early families associated with the castle and surrounding areas....

Many of the gravestones inside the cemetery relate to seafaring families long associated with this peninsula....

This is a rare instance of a cemetery reserved exclusively for the burial of women, as its Irish name indicates. It is a small, almost square, enclosure with raised centre in which a number of low stones presumably mark old graves. Traditionally, no dead man or living woman was meant to enter the enclosure, but how old that tradition is, or what its origin was, we do not know....

Glenaan :- "Glen of rush lights" famous for the the grave of the warrior poet Ossian....

Legend has it that the first people to the buried here were Danes, who brought soil from Scandinavia so that they could rest in their own soil. Whether true or not, locals say that the soil at Ballypriormore is sandier than elsewhere in Islandmagee. Many old gravestones are to be found in the cemetery, which is accessed along a small lane just past Ballypriormore School....

Glencorp :- "Glen of the Slaughter", an area of hill farms and whin clad slopes....

On Merrion Row, look out for the wought iron gates of the recently restored Huguenot graveyard. Last used in 1901 it is evidence that Dublin was once home to many Huguenots who fled to Ireland throughout the 17th and 18th centuries to escape persecution in Europe....

Glendun :- "Brown Glen", this glen has the wildest scenery of all the Glens....