Ballinacurra Graveyard + Church Ruins

14/11/2025

17/06/2025

Trojan work Done tonight. Special thanks to Donal 👍🏻

05/06/2025

Special thanks to our young legend, Jayke (and his mam Nicole) for coming down after school and taking away 2 bags of rubbish.

Jayke is a credit to his family and we really appreciate him giving us his time and effort.

29/05/2025

Great work done this week by Tony, Eleanor and Donal.

Its very hard to control from May-September but we do our best.

18/04/2025

It was wonderful to show our little Dutchman Alko’s Nieces to his grave this morning. The weather was awful but really emotional and bittersweet that this was his first visit from his family. Previous attempts failed as they only had Cork to go on as opposed to Ballinacurra.

Special thanks to the team for all their hard work. It was an honour to be part of this special event today.

16/04/2025

More fabulous work done by team members this Week. Graves cleaned, graves tended, Church cutting completed and the Bluebells left in bloom! Thanks to everyone for the hard graft and logistics behind the scenes 💚🤍💚

12/04/2025

Great work done today by team member Tony O’Loughlin on the inside of the church. It’s been a while since we were able to attack it properly so we truly appreciate the new team members coming on board this year and getting stuck in.

10/04/2025

Great work this week done by the team. The Connors, Fitzgerald, Mudler, Hesketh/Rice and Shelton-Agar graves all got a touch up.

Thanks again to engineering and Vincent O’Brien for the sponsorship and donation respectively.

04/04/2025

Great work done this week by team members Conor and Donal. Superb work lads, thanks 😀

03/04/2025

The team would love to thank Grainne and John Foley of Foltech Engineering for their wonderful sponsorship of a few bags gravel for our untended graves.

Check them out at at https://www.foltech.ie/

We also wish to thank Mr Vincent O Brien for his wonderful donation of tools and equipment to help us in our endeavours.

You are Wonderful people, thank you so much for helping us . 💚🤍💚

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25/03/2025

More done yesterday, great work done by team member Donal on the Morgan grave. Michael, an RIC man transferred out of Ballinacurra on Promotion to Sergeant in Whitegate before our RIC station closed in 1905. He is buried in Thomastown beside a convent where his Daughter was a nun. His wife and multiple children rest here.

The second is a stone discovered a couple of years ago by the team. Recovered again this week and is of Charles McCarthy who died in 1772, 4 years older than the USA.