What is recorded here

Donnybrook Village graveyard holds Fitzwilliam bones from the 16th century and marks the earliest surviving tombstone of Thomas Jordan and Catherine Hanon in 1629. It may occupy the lost convent site of St. Broc, where prayer and burial belonged to the same ground before the church of Taney claimed the place. The stones remain quiet while the names beneath them keep their own time.

The present graveyard in Donnybrook Village is reputedly on the site of an an early convent site associated with St. Broc and later attached to the church of Taney (Ball 1903, 57). This graveyard was the burying place of the Fitzwilliams in the 16th-century (op cit 58). The earliest tombstone in the graveyard today commemorates Thomas Jordan and Catherine Hanon 1629 (Parkinson 1993).

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