What is recorded here

Graveyard in Englishtown,limerick City belongs to St. Mary's Cathedral and has watched Limerick since the cathedral appeared at the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111. Its stone wall, raised after 1700, still holds a broad field of forgotten lives beside the church. What was buried there is no longer certain, but the size of the ground suggests generations walked past it, prayed at it, and stopped remembering the names.

Graveyard belonging to St. Mary's Cathedral (LI005-017015-) in Limerick City described in the Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 300) as following; 'The cathedral appears to have been established at the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 90) but the earliest parts of the present structure date to c. 1180-95 (Leask 1955-60, ii; Clapham 1952, 29)'. A large graveyard (approx. dims. 100m NE-SE x 82m NW-SE) enclosed by a post 1700 stone wall lies to the S and W of the cathedral church. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2019

Medieval Christian cemetery; associated with St. Mary's Cathedral, significant as a religious and burial site in Limerick City dating from the medieval period.

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