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
Location in Ireland
Details
Established7th century AD
Location
Church Road, Celbridge, County Kildare
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
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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]

  • Mortuary chapel
  • Ruined medieval church, with tracery fragment visible in the windowframe

Notable burials
Memorial plaque to Vol. Michael Heffernan
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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. http://www.heritageweek.ie/whats-on/event/ghosts-of-tea-lane-graveyard
  14. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/662844/SHERIDAN,%20C%20J
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