Transcribed Gravestones of County Dublin

A useful reference concerning Dublin graveyards and their records is 'Directory of Graveyards in the Dublin Area - An index and Guide to Burial Records' published by Dublin Public Libraries, 1988. ISBN 0 9468410 6 3

The list of Dublin graveyards which have been transcribed over the years is long, there are over 200 graveyards in the Dublin area including Glasnevin which has c. 1,000,000 people interred in it's grounds.

Dr. Michael T.S. Egan has been transcribing Dublin graveyards for the last number of years and the Genealogical Society of Ireland (formerly known as the Dun Laoighre Genealogical Society) has published a number of volumes of Memorial Inscriptions of Deansgrange Cemetery. Deansgrange is the largest cemetery in south Co. Dublin, while Glasnevin is the largest in north Co. Dublin.

Mr. Brian Cantwell stands out amongst those who have transcribed Irish Gravestones and Memorials. He transcribed and compiled 6 volumes of Memorial inscriptions for Co. Wexford, 4 for Co. Wicklow, 1 for Co. Clare.He compiled and edited 1 volume for South Co. Dublin with Mr. Ian T. Cantwell between the years of 1980 and 1990 and this was published in 1990.

Mr. Cantwell's Memorial Inscriptions volume for South Co. Dublin (1990) includes the following:

• Aderrig
• Booterstown Ave, interior of Church of the Assumption, Roman Catholic
• Crumlin, interior of Mount Argus Roman Catholic Church
• Dalkey
• Donabate: Kilcrea
• Donnybrook, Clyde Road, interior of St. Bartholomew's Church of Ireland
• Donnybrook, interior of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Roman Catholic
• Donnybrook, Sandymount, interior of the Star of the Sea, Roman Catholic
• Killiney
• Killiney, interior of Ballybrack, Roman Catholic
• Kiltiernan, Church of Ireland
• Kiltiernan, Glencullen, Roman Catholic
• Monkstown, interior of York Rd., Presbyterian
• Monkstown, interior of St. Paul's Glenageary, Church of Ireland
• Monkstown, interior of Northumberland Ave, methodist
• Monkstown, interior of the Mariner's Church, Church of Ireland
• Monkstown, interior of Christ Church Kingstown, Church of Ireland
• Monkstown, interior, Church of Ireland
• Oldconnaught
• Rathmichael, interior of Church of Ireland
• St. Peter's, Adelaide Rd., Presbyterian
• St. Peter's, interior, Rathmines, Roman Catholic
• Stillorgan South, Church of Ireland
• Taney Church, Dundrum, interior, Church of Ireland
• Tully, Laughanstown,
• St. Andrew's, St. Andrew's Street, Church of Ireland - plus coffin plates from interior
• St. Anne's, Dawson Street, Church of Ireland
• St. Bride's, Peter Street, French Protestant
• St. Michael's, Merchant Quay, interior, Roman Catholic
• St. Nicholas of Myra (St. Nicholas Without), Francis St., interior, Roman Catholic
• St. Peter's, Harrington Street, interior, Roman Catholic
• St. Peter's, Kevin Street, interior, Roman Catholic

  Glasnevin Cemetery - Some inscriptions on this website

• Deansgrange Cemetery Photos Part 1

  Chapleizod - Irish Genealogist, Vol. V, No. 4, 1977

  Cloghran. History and Description of Santry and Cloghran Parishes. Rev. Benjamin W. Adams, 1883

  Dalkey. Irish Genealogist, Vol. V, No. 2, 1975

  Dublin City: Christ Church Cathedral: Inscriptions on the Monuments.....in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Rev. John Finlayson, 1878

  Names on Coffin Plates in the Vault's of St. Andrew's R.C. Church, Westland Row, Dublin: Irish Genealogist, Vol. V., No. 1, 1974, pp. 131-138 (link to some details and surname index)

• Saint Michael and Saint John's (names on coffin plates): Irish Genealogist, Vol. V., No. 3, 1976

  St.Paul (Church of Ireland). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Vol. CIV, 1974

  Killiney(old churchyard): Irish Genealogist, Vol. IV, No. 6, 1973

  Kill o' the Grange: Irish Genealogist, Vol. IV, No. 5, 1972

  Lucan: Irish genealogist, Vol. V., No. 6, 1976

  Monkstown. Irish Genealogist, Vol. IV, Nos. 3 & 4, 1970-71

  Palmerstown: Irish Genealogist, Vol. V., No. 8, 1978

  Santry: History and Description of Santry and Cloghran Parishes. Rev. Benjamin W. Adams, 1883

  Tallaght: Irish Genealogist, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1968

  Taney: The Parish of Taney. F. Elrington Ball, 1895

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