Historic Graves

Historic Graves
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It is said that Ireland has a Diaspora of over 70 million worldwide.

Each year, visitors come to Ireland in the hope that they can find their roots and trace the story of their ancestors. However, it sometimes can be quite a challenge to do this.

In Ballyhoura Country, most of the old graveyards and headstones have been transcribed with records available online to enable FREE family searches. In addition, all graveyards and indeed headstones are geolocated, therefore all linked to Google Maps and easy to find!

This is due to an enormous voluntary effort across the region over a number of years. The Historic Graves project is a community-focused grassroots heritage project. Local community groups were trained in a low-cost high-tech field survey of historic graveyards.

What has been created is a multi-media online record of the historic graves from these communities which unite to form a national resource in Ireland.

www.historicgraves.ie allows visitors from Ireland and across the globe to freely explore and search the growing database of multimedia records and stories.

The website and survey methodology have been designed and built by Eachtra Heritage.

Since 2012 communities across the Ballyhoura Region have been actively engaged within the surveying and recording of historic graves.

The detail is now available on www.historicgraves.ie and for those of you searching for family graves and headstones, this is the way to find them!

Simply put your family surname into the search box and it will locate all names in relevant graveyards for you. 80% of all historic graveyards in Ballyhoura Country have already been surveyed with a focus on completion in 2020.

Locations include Lough Gur, Grange, Knockainey, Ardpatrick, Milford, Dromina, Ballyorgan, Kilfinane, Kilbehenny, Caherconlish, Doon and Murroe and many many more.

Check out historic graveyards listings of Kilbehenny Church, Aghacross, Kilflyn, Knockainey St. John's Church and New Church Lough Gur.

Log onto www.historicgraves.ie and start exploring your family’s ancestral journey!

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History Lovers
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It is said that Ireland has a Diaspora of over 70 million worldwide.

Each year, visitors come to Ireland in the hope that they can find their roots and trace the story of their ancestors. However, it sometimes can be quite a challenge to do this.

In Ballyhoura Country, most of the old graveyards and headstones have been transcribed with records available online to enable FREE family searches. In addition, all graveyards and indeed headstones are geolocated, therefore all linked to Google Maps and easy to find!

This is due to an enormous voluntary effort across the region over a number of years. The Historic Graves project is a community-focused grassroots heritage project. Local community groups were trained in a low-cost high-tech field survey of historic graveyards.

What has been created is a multi-media online record of the historic graves from these communities which unite to form a national resource in Ireland.

www.historicgraves.ie allows visitors from Ireland and across the globe to freely explore and search the growing database of multimedia records and stories.

The website and survey methodology have been designed and built by Eachtra Heritage.

Since 2012 communities across the Ballyhoura Region have been actively engaged within the surveying and recording of historic graves.

The detail is now available on www.historicgraves.ie and for those of you searching for family graves and headstones, this is the way to find them!

Simply put your family surname into the search box and it will locate all names in relevant graveyards for you. 80% of all historic graveyards in Ballyhoura Country have already been surveyed with a focus on completion in 2020.

Locations include Lough Gur, Grange, Knockainey, Ardpatrick, Milford, Dromina, Ballyorgan, Kilfinane, Kilbehenny, Caherconlish, Doon and Murroe and many many more.

Check out historic graveyards listings of Kilbehenny Church, Aghacross, Kilflyn, Knockainey St. John's Church and New Church Lough Gur.

Log onto www.historicgraves.ie and start exploring your family’s ancestral journey!

Suitable for:

History Lovers