The Irish Starveling's Memorials
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Smarmore ancient Cemetery, Ardee, Co. Louth. Site of Ardee Workhouse dead overflow. Initiated by Malachy Towey and his wife Bea nee Mooney, ex-Bridge St., Ardee.
Installation OK'd by its Co. Co. caretaker of cemetery. State-owned RTE Radio 1 Show Host Joe Duffy angry about the monument. "Tried" to insult me by calling me "Trump" on air? |
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Lisnabinnia Village Memorial, on the side of the Ballymoe-Glennamaddy road in Ballyglass, Co. Galway. Initiated by Tom Egan, Ballyglass. Co. Co. permit granted.
The memorial's Consecration/Inauguration attendees included three groups who requested similar monuments at their local "famine" graves. |
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Lisnabinnia. On Ballyglass/Kilcooley mering wall. Installed after Flanagan sisters verified location in a field once theirs. Their father had hit the remains with his plow about 1910 when Ireland was returned to the Irish. He stopped and never again plowed that ideally-friable field. Current owner OK'd installation. |
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Robinstown, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. On north bank of Royal Canal. Initiated twenty-three years ago. Anonymous locals facilitated site ingress and installed concrete base. Westmeath Examiner and Midland Topic newspapers editorialized against. Unavailingly called for Co. Co. to remove memorial. Public support silenced the newspapers.
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Kilkeevin, Co Roscommon. Outside wall of Kilkeevin Cemetery, Castlerea. Because known as Holocaust burial site, it became burial site for dead of nearby Harristown Hospital. Permission secured by monument maker
Kilbegnet Old Cemetery, Creggs, Co. Galway. Initiated by locals at Lisnabinnia consecration in 2000. Blocked by Bishop Christopher Jones of its Diocese of Elphin until he retired. In late 2000 Jones had got the Co. Co. to remove part of the cemetery wall and expanded it to include part of the Holocaust mass grave; thus bringing (without moving) the starvelings' remains into consecrated ground 155 years after they perished. Monument maker got the installation Ok'ed.
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Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
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