Ardagh Cemetery

Ardagh Cemetery holds eight cast-iron Celtic crosses, each naming a saint or the Church of Ireland, dividing its plots like a map of local belief. The oldest stone appears dated 1896, but the cemetery itself formed around 1895, making its markers a late-Victorian act of memory rather than a medieval relic. To walk there is to read a town’s argument about holiness: some names familiar, others strange, all given equal ground beside St. Brigid’s church.