Tea Lane Graveyard

Tea Lane Graveyard (Irish: Reilig Lána an Tae) is a Christian cemetery located in Celbridge, Ireland.[1][2][3][4]

Tea Lane Graveyard
Conolly chapel
Details
Established7th century AD
Location
CountryRepublic of Ireland
Coordinates53.338772°N 6.546788°W / 53.338772; -6.546788
TypeChristian
StyleRural cemetery
Owned byGlasnevin Trust
Size3,140 m2 (0.775 acre)
No. of gravesthousands
Websitetealanegraveyard.com
Find a GraveTea Lane Graveyard

History

The site is located 500 m northwest of the River Liffey and is the reputed burial site of Saint Mochua of Timahoe (died 657). Mochua built a wooden church on the site and was the first abbot of Clondalkin. It stood on the Slighe Mhor, an ancient roadway which ran from Dublin to Galway.[5]

The Normans handed over control of St Mochua's church to the Abbey Church of Saint Thomas the Martyr, Dublin in 1215; the abbey supplied Celbridge with its priests. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey was suppressed and came into the possession of the Anglican Church of Ireland.[6]

The present church building was built c. 1860, incorporating material from the medieval church (c. 1600).[7]

The placename dates to the 19th century, when many English workers were brought over to work at Celbridge mill; the locals noted the large amounts of tea they drank, and the tealeaves that they threw into the roadway,[8] and Church Lane was nicknamed "Tea Lane."[9]

Notable burials

Memorial plaque to Vol. Michael Heffernan

References

  1. "Tea Lane Graveyard Conservation Project". www.facebook.com.
  2. "History morning at Celbridge's Tea Lane graveyard".
  3. McCarthy, Patricia (12 July 2017). Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. ISBN 9780300218862 via Google Books.
  4. D'Arcy, Fergus A. (1 January 2007). Remembering the War Dead: British Commonwealth and International War Graves in Ireland Since 1914. Stationery Office. ISBN 9780755775897 via Google Books.
  5. "New conservation project for Tea Lane graveyard in Celbridge – Kildare Local History . ie". kildarelocalhistory.ie.
  6. Doohan, Tony (1984). A History of Celbridge. Genprint Ltd, Dublin. pp. 8, 71–72.
  7. "Tea Lane Graveyard, Church Road, Celbridge, County Kildare". www.buildingsofireland.ie.
  8. O'Dowd, Desmond J. (1 October 1997). Changing times: the story of religion in 19th century Celbridge. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 9780716526353 via Google Books.
  9. "Celbridge History by Charles Graham (1896)". 5 February 2013.
  10. Higgins, Aidan (12 July 1995). Donkey's years: memories of a life as story told. Secker & Warburg. ISBN 9780436203046 via Internet Archive. tea lane.
  11. "Tea Lane Graveyard Conservation Project". www.facebook.com.
  12. "Sinn Fein lay wreath at Heffernan memorial in Kildare".
  13. "Projects | National Heritage Week 14-22 August 2021".
  14. "Casualty Details | CWGC".
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