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Taylor’s Cross and Mellon overall winners in Burial Ground Awards 2019

Picture: Marie Keating

Burial Ground Awards 2019: Limerick City and County Council staff Brian Henry, Sarah McCutcheon, Gordon Daly, Alice Hennessy and Carmel Lynch, Cathaoirleach Adare/Rathkeale Kevin Sheahan, Councillors Jerome Scanlan, Tom Ruddle and Brigid Teaffy and Special Guest Anneke Vrieling, Ecologist Feale Biodiversity, at the Burial Ground Awards at Fitzgerald’s Woodlands House Hotel and Spa, Adare

Taylor’s Cross and Mellon overall winners in Burial Ground Awards 2019

Burial Ground Awards 2019

Bernard O’Reilly, Kilmurry Burial Ground, receives the 1st Place Award in the Metro Modern Category from Cathaoirleach Adare/Rathkeale Municipal District Kevin Sheahan and Gordon Daly, Director of Community Development Limerick City and County Council, at the Burial Ground Awards at Fitzgerald’s Woodlands House Hotel and Spa, Adare

Taylor’s Cross and Mellon have been selected as the overall winners in the Burial Ground Awards for 2019. The announcement was made at a gala ceremony at the Fitzgerald’s Woodlands House Hotel in Adare, where the winners were announced in the Modern and Ancient categories. 


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The awards are divided into two categories, ancient and modern, with individual winners selected for the three Municipal Districts and the Metropolitan District of Limerick.

Voluntary parish committees, community councils, groups and individuals from across Limerick participated in the 12th annual awards scheme, which is organized by the Community Development Department of Limerick City and County Council. 

Speaking at the gala ceremony, Cathaoirleach of the Adare-Rathkeale Municipal District, Cllr Kevin Sheahan congratulated all the nominees and said: “Limerick City and County Council is very thankful for the hard work and commitment of groups and associations as well as individuals across Limerick who, day in day out, week in week out, maintain their local burial grounds.”

Burial Ground Awards 2019

Noreen Culhane and Tom Costello, Croagh Community Burial Ground, receives the 2nd Place Award in the Adare/Rathkeale Modern Category from Cathaoirleach Adare/Rathkeale Municipal District Kevin Sheahan and Gordon Daly, Director of Community Development Limerick City and County Council, at the Burial Ground Awards at Fitzgerald’s Woodlands House Hotel and Spa, Adare

“Everyone is deeply thankful for the time and effort that you all spend in the upkeep of the burial grounds. And as a result that is why we are here this evening – to honor you and your selfless commitment to your community.”

“I want to pay tribute to the communities, burial ground committees, burial ground caretakers and parish councils who look after the upkeep and maintenance of Limerick’s 250 or so cemeteries.”

Acknowledgments were also given to Limerick Civic Trust, Ballyhoura Development and West Limerick Resources who run the Rural Social Scheme Programme. The workers on these schemes along with TUS and Community Employment Schemes play an important role in the maintenance of our graveyards and cemeteries and the historic monuments contained within them.

 

Burial Grounds Awards Modern Category:

Adare-Rathkeale

  • Overall Winner: Taylor’s Cross
  • 1st Taylor’s Cross
  • 2nd Croagh Community
  • 3rd Croom Community

Cappamore-Kilmallock

  • 1st Inch St. Laurence
  • 2nd Effin
  • 3rd Colmanswell
  • 4th Ballinard Herbertstown

Metropolitan

  • 1st Kilmurry

Newcastle West

  • 1st St Ita’s, Kilmeedy
  • 2nd Mountcollins
  • 3rd Auglish

 Burial Grounds Awards Ancient Category:

Adare-Rathkeale

  • Overall Winner: Mellon
  • 1st Mellon
  • 2nd Fedamore Old
  • 3rd Drehidtrasna

Cappamore-Kilmallock

  • 1st Ballingaddy Old
  • 2nd Abbey
  • 3rd Mongfune
  • 4th Pallasgreen CoI

Metropolitan

  • 1st Kilkeedy

Newcastle West

  • 1st Cloncrew
  • 2nd Rathronan
  • 3rd Abbeyfeale Church of Ireland

Picture: Marie Keating

 

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