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Introduction |
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11th-12th
centuries – Anglo-Norman grave slabs erected in graveyards of
east Ulster |
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| Late 14th century – Cooey-na-Gall
O’Cahan’s tomb erected in Dungiven Priory. |
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15th-16th centuries
– cadaver tombs erected in parts of Ireland |
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| 1585 – Earliest sculpted memorial bearing
an inscription. Jones ,Ardglass CI, Co. Down |
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Early 1600's –
influx of English/Scots settlers to Ulster bringing their gravestone
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1611-22
– Ulster Plantation records |
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| 1625 – death of Sir Arthur
Chichester who commissioned the finest 17th-century monument in Ireland |
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1630-1
– Ulster muster rolls |
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1660s
– Hearth money rolls. |
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| Late 17th century – sculpted headstones
in the north Fermanagh/west Tyrone area |
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1697 – Law
passed forbidding burial in the graveyard of a suppressed monastery
or abbey |
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| 1708
– Registry of Deeds established in Dublin |
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Early 18th century
– headstones with mortality symbols in south Fermanagh/Monaghan |
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| 1740
– ‘Census of Protestant householders’ |
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1766
– Religious census |
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| 1772 – law passed by Irish
parliament banning burial within churches |
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1775
– Dissenters’ petitions |
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| Late 18th century – mortality
symbolism almost disappears from Ulster gravestones |
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1795 – Site
acquired for a burying ground at Clifton Street, Belfast |
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| 1796
– Flaxgrowers’ List |
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Early 19th century
– Classical mausolea become popular in Ulster |
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| 1803-4
– Agricultural censuses for Antrim and Down |
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1823
– Passing of Tithe Composition Act |
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| 1824 – Law passed
requiring clergy, other than CI, to apply in writing to perform a
burial service. |
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1830s
– First or Townland Valuation |
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| 1848-64
– Griffiths Valuation |
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1856 – ‘An
act to amend the laws relating to the burial of the dead in Ireland’
passed |
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| 1869 – Belfast City Cemetery opened
by the Corporation. |
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1869 – Milltown
Cemetery opened in Belfast by the Roman Catholic Church |
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| 1884 – Cremation ruled legal. |
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1901
– earliest surviving census for the whole of Ireland |
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| 1912
– Ulster Covenant |
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1920s to present
– war memorials erected in many towns in Ireland |
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| 1961 – City of Belfast Crematorium
opened, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland. |
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