Thursday, May 29, 2025

Local History Diversion

Headstone in Tournant graveyard, Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow © Eugene Brennan

Off topic again. I ended up in Tournant Graveyard in Dunlavin yesterday on one of my bicycle ramblings, to take shelter from the heavy showers under some yew trees. I hadn't been there since the 90s, so the other reason I visited was to wander around the graveyard and read the inscriptions. This Doyle headstone has lots of detail about the family's history. Tournant Graveyard is the location where those who were executed in 1798 on the village green in Dunlavin were buried in a mass grave, now marked with a memorial headstone listing all the names.