The organisers were blessed with a balmy afternoon for the ecumenical blessing of the cemetery behind Cláirín housing estate that also includes an adjoining infants’ burial plot.Īs birdsong echoed through the graveyard, Bishop Cullinan began the half-hour local service by telling the congregation in his greeting prayer that “no one is a pauper in the sight of God, and all who are buried here are cherished and loved by God”. The overgrown wilderness that lay hidden and forgotten for nearly a century has been transformed into a beautifully maintained burial ground that as Restoration Committee chairman John Connolly summed up “gives due respect and recognition to the many poor people buried there”. The service was the culmination of five years of painstaking restoration work led by the five-strong Carrick Workhouse Burial Ground Restoration Committee with the help of local volunteers and funding from Tipperary County Council, local community groups and private donations. More than 150 people gathered at a once forgotten paupers’ cemetery in Carrick-on-Suir last Sunday afternoon to mark its restoration and to remember and pray for the unknown souls buried there.īishop of Waterford & Lismore Alphonsus Cullinan and Rev Victoria Lynch of the Fiddown Union of Church of Ireland Parishes led the ecumenical service and blessing of St Francis’ Paupers’ Cemetery, which was a Carrick-on-Suir Workhouse burial ground from 1842 to 1922.
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