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Tea Lane Graveyard

Coordinates: 53°20′20″N 6°32′48″W / 53.338772°N 6.546788°W / 53.338772; -6.546788
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Tea Lane Graveyard
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Details
Established7th century AD
Location
CountryRepublic of Ireland
Coordinates53°20′20″N 6°32′48″W / 53.338772°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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Tea Lane Graveyard (Irish: Reilig Lána an Tae) is a Christian cemetery located in Celbridge, Ireland.[1][2][3][4]

History

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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]

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Notable burials

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Memorial plaque to Vol. Michael Heffernan

References

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  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. ISBN 9780300218862 – 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. ISBN 9780755775897 – 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. ISBN 9780716526353 – 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. ISBN 9780436203046 – 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. ^ "Projects | National Heritage Week 14-22 August 2021".
  14. ^ "Casualty Details | CWGC".