Cemetery: Mount St. Lawrence Cemetery

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File contributed by:  Kathy Rhodes LittleHouseAntiques@att.net

MOUNT ST. LAWRENCE CEMETERY
Limerick, Co. Limerick
Blackboy Pike, next to Limerick Prison and St. Joseph's Hospital
RC Parish: St. Munchins?
Opened c1849-1854?

Transcribed from handwritten notes made by family members on 
a trip to Ireland in September 1989.  Family members did 
wander about the cemetery looking at tombstones but rather 
than transcribing directly from the tombstones they searched 
through a Cemetery Record Book dated 1840 to 19__ for 
entries under the Surname SHANAHAN.  It is unclear to me 
where my family members obtained this "Cemetery Record 
Book". Notes indicate that actual plot numbers for each 
grave were in the "notes" but unfortunately these additional 
"notes" with the associated plot #s appear to be missing 
from the materials I was sent.  The Month of burial was 
included in this "Cemetery Record Book" but was not recorded 
by my family members.  The Calculated Birth Date is just 
that - calculated by subtracting the age from the burial 
date and due to the month of burial not being recorded may 
therefore be slightly off.

James Shanahan
Buried:  1857
Age:  9 Years
Calculated Birth Date:  1848

Thomas Shanahan
Buried:  1861
Age:  1 day
Calculated Birth Date:  1861
Comments:  Denmark Street

John Shanahan
Buried:  1861
Age:  6 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1855
Comments:  Thornmondgate

Edward Shanahan
Buried:  1863
Age:   46 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1817
Comments:  Thornmondgate

Mary Shanahan
Buried:  1868
Age:   43 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1825
Comments:  John's Square

Patrick Shanahan
Buried:  1870
Age:   48 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1822
Comments: Mary St.

Michael Shine
Buried:  1871
Age:   40 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1831
Comments: Colleyhenan; Plot paid for by an individual whose 
surname was Shanahan; relationship to deceased unknown.

Edward Shanahan
Buried:  1872
Age:   22 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1850
Comments:  Thornmndgate

Lawrence Shanahan
Buried:  1886
Age:    50 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1836
Comments:   Dublin

Patrick Ryan
Buried:  1890
Age:    14 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1876
Comments:   George's Quay; Plot paid for by an individual 
whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to deceased 
unknown.

Eliza Shanahan
Buried:  1895
Age:    10 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1885
Comments:   Ardhue Terrace

Anne Hogan
Buried:  1894
Age:    30 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1864
Comments:   Lunatic Asylum; Plot paid for by an individual 
whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to deceased 
unknown.

Margaret Shanahan
Buried:  1903
Age:    67 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1836
Comments:   9 Charles St.

James Slattery
Buried:  1904
Age:    25 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1879
Comments:   Barrington's Hospital; Plot paid for by an 
individual whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to 
deceased unknown.

Elizabeth Donovan
Buried:  1904
Age:    63 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1841
Comments:  Crecora; Plot paid for by an individual whose 
surname was Shanahan; relationship to deceased unknown.

Ellen Bourke
Buried:  1913
Age:    67 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1846
Comments:   St. Mary's Convent; Plot paid for by an 
individual whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to 
deceased unknown.

T. R. Very Rev. V. G. Shanahan
Buried:  1915
Age:    90 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1825
Comments:   Saint Munchins; See Additional Note at bottom***

William Duffy
Buried:  1917
Age:    1 day
Calculated Birth Date:  1917
Comments:   Bedford Row Hospital; Plot paid for by an 
individual whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to 
deceased unknown.

Robert Hobbs
Buried:  ?
Age:    4 days
Calculated Birth Date:  ?
Comments:   Lower Gerald Griffin St.; Plot paid for by an 
individual whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to 
deceased unknown.

Mary Mann
Buried:  1923
Age:    2 weeks
Calculated Birth Date:  1923
Comments:  6 Wickham St.; Plot paid for by an individual 
whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to deceased 
unknown.

Denis Shanahan
Buried:  1925
Age:    60 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1865
Comments:  Barnakyle

Mary Kate Shanahan
Buried:  1923
Age:    46 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1877
Comments:  9 Athlunkard St.

William J. O'Connell
Buried:  1932
Age:    3 weeks
Calculated Birth Date:  1932; Plot paid for by an individual 
whose surname was Shanahan; relationship to deceased 
unknown.

Michael J. Shanahan
Buried:  1942
Age:    10 days
Calculated Birth Date:  1942
Comments:  Barrington's Hospital

Mary Shanahan
Buried:  Nov 1942
Age:    60 years
Calculated Birth Date:  1882
Comments:  1 Belfield

***Additional Note:  T. R. Very Rev. V. G. Shanahan may be 
Father Timothy Shanahan, one of four SHANAHAN brothers who 
were also priests. The four SHANAHAN brothers who were 
priests were:  Timothy SHANAHAN, Denis SHANAHAN, Gerard 
SHANAHAN and Patrick SHANAHAN.  These 4 Shanahan brothers 
also had a cousin (also of the priesthood) named Father 
Fogarty who was a priest in the Diocese of Des Monies in 
Iowa. I have further details on these individuals that were 
sent to me by the Diocese of Limerick if anyone is 
interested or has a connection to this family.  Please just 
email me for details.