The round tower in the cemetery in Ardmore is really impressive, standing out on the hillside overlooking the town. The tower was built in the 12th century but it has been kept in great condition. Lots more to learn about it on this page.

Ardmore Cemetery is the final resting place of some of the crew of the S.S. Ary, a steamer that ran into difficulties in rough seas in 1947. Only one person survived.

St. Matthew’s Church and Graveyard overlooking Crosshaven and Church Bay in East Cork. Last Thursday night with Blarney Photography Club.

The gravestone of Richard Frances, in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Boston as photographed in 2003 when I visited Cambridge. I remember looking up his name back then but didn’t find anything but years later there are a few traces of him online here and here. The first resident of Massachusetts by the name of Francis that…

Innishannon, Co Cork. October 2018.

Cork, September 2015.

An old graveyard in Spiddal, Co Galway. September 2011.

Abbeystrowry Cemetery is located near Skibereen in County Cork. It is the site of some of the mass graves used in the area during the famine around 1845. I didn’t know, or had forgotten there was a famine in 1740/1741 when 400,000 people died. That many people died on this little island of ours in…

Death is a sad but inevitable part of life. A gravestone marks the earthly remains of the departed with a brief message recording their passing with, if space permits, a note from the grieving family. All that to sum up the life and times of a person. Seems very inadequate. In the future of course…

Tullagh Cemetery in Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland is just a field away from the excellent Casey’s Hotel where we spent the last week. I went down there one evening to shoot a couple of half capsized trawlers in the bay when I turned around and saw some of the headstones silhouetted against the setting sun….

Co. Cork Cemetery A graveyard in Co. Cork attracted my attention last summer while walking with Oscar down a small road. I didn’t go in but I got a few nice shots from over the cemetery gate. This is a the result of sandwiching two versions of this image together. One is overexposed and the…

Currykippane Cemetery It’s Halloween, that time of year that the souls of the dead rise up, goblins and monsters are abroad and witches fly about. I’ve already had my barm brack and even got the ring, but tonight is when kids go “trick or treating” looking for treats and avoiding tricks! I made this image…