Our Local Cemeteries
There are two ancient cemeteries in Carrigtwohill. The main one in the village
surrounds the Augustinian Canon Abbey ruins (Coordinates 51°54'38.3"N 8°15'33.9"W),
and another being at Templecurraheen. A resent addition is the new cemetery adjoining
the old Abbey burial grounds.
A project totally independent of our society was conducted by a number of volunteers
known as the Templecurraheen Graveyard Documentation Project
Many of their committee are also members of our historical society. The project findings was launched during
an unveiling ceremony 4th May 2026, attended by many members of the
local community.
At our 2026 AGM, one of this project committee, Aidan Dennehy, was elected as a member
of the society committee.Read that story by Aidan by selecting it from our menue item above.
Augustinian Canon Abbey Burial Ground
Not far away is Caherlag in the neighbouring parish of Glounthaune. Here too some of
those interred were native villagers.
Sample Headstones (Datasheet 22)
Anco Community Response Project
An Chomhairle Oiliúna, (‘The Training Council’), more commonly referred to as AnCO, went
on to become ‘FÁS’, which has again been renamed as ‘Solas’. These organisations were
National training and employment authorities, provides career guidance services, including
information on training and employment opportunities throughout Ireland.
In Carrigtwohill Anco undertook a six-month project between September 1986 to March 1987
to produce individual datasheets of the old cemetery surrounding the Augustinian Abbey Ruins,
entitled ‘Anco Community Response Project’. These datasheets included beautiful hand drawn
images of the headstone with transcriptions of headstone inscriptions. They also produced an
accompanying site plan of headstone locations.
The local trainee participants were; Kenneth O’Keeffe, Barry Flynn, Kevin Barry,
Denise Donnelly, Teresa Fenton, Evelyn Kidney, and Tomas Crowley.
Database
In 2012 this project was taken a step further. The original AnCo project document containing
328 datasheets was first fully scanned for prosperity. Then, the datasheets were used to create
a searchable database. At a resent committee meeting it was agreed this database shall be published
on our website. This has finally been achieved.
Old St David's Abbey Cemetery
To save site plan to your PC or Laptop, right click on image.
To search St David’s Cemetery, go to top left submenu and click on St David’s Database item. To
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