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 at Templecurraheen. A recent 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 (burial register and grave photographs). Many of their committee are also members of our historical society. The project findings were 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.
Not far away is Caherlag in the neighbouring parish of Glounthaune. Here too some of those interred were native villagers.
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, providing 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.
To save the site plan to your PC or laptop, right-click the image.
Database
In 2012 this project was taken a step further. The original AnCo project document containing 328 datasheets was first fully scanned for posterity. Then, the datasheets were used to create a searchable database. At a recent committee meeting it was agreed this database shall be published on our website. This has finally been achieved.
To search St David’s Cemetery records, open the St David’s burial database. Use your browser’s back button, or return via Our Local Cemeteries, when you are finished.
Templecurraheen Graveyard — society page (photos and launch story)