Oldest Recorded Grave in Ireland Traditional Cache
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Oldest Recorded Grave in Ireland
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Traditional cache hidden in Old Kilbrogan Graveyard. Please Note: permission has been sought an obtained to place the geo-cache here. This is hidden as part of Bandon's annual Walled Town Festival.
Please note that out of respect, I have moved the final cache location, see waypoints.
Part of the Bandon Churches Series....
Grave of Anne Dyke (died 1623), the oldest recorded grave in Ireland.
Ann Dyke was a native of Bristol, who came to Bandon with the first settlers and founders of Bandon, around 1588. Chiefly Puritans from Somerset (many of their namesakes are to be found on the Mayflowers’ passsenger list) they docked at Kinsale, walking on foot they carried all their belongings and tradesman’s tools up through Shipool woods, past Pollnalong Castle, onwards crossing over at Downdaniel outside Innishannon before setting camp on the banks at the forde in the River, Drohid Mahon. Although the bridge pre-existed and was named after the O’Mahony clan since 1375, it is safe to say that Bandon would not exist but for these settlers.
Historians have passed down that Ann Dyke died of a contagious disease, contracted while ministering unselfishly to some of her fellow planters, who suffered at the time from a plague, which caused many deaths among them. The reference to “Ann Dyke, alias Herrison, a virgin” - though obviously married, refers to Anne Dyke nursing or ministering to the sick.
HERE LIETH THE BODY
OF ANN DYKE, ALIAS
HERRISON , A VIRGIN
ANNO DOM. 1623
AND THOUGH AFTER
MY SKINNE, WORMES
DESTROY THIS BODY
YET SHALL I SEE GOD
IN MY FLESH. Job 19:26
Found in the rectangular graveyard of Old Kilbrogan, containing the remains of Kilbrogan RC Chapel. The parish, known by its old name Kill-og-in-eg was recorded in history four hundred years before Bandon was founded. The Church and lands at Kill-og-in-eg were rated at six silver marks a year by order of Pope Nicolas IV in the year 1291 AD. The Church was dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel and stood upon the site of the present ruins of Kilbrogan Church. The medieval Church was demolished in 1610 to afford building material for the Protestant Church of the Holy Trinity Bandon, better known as Christ Church, which was erected in North Main Street, Bandon. The Catholic Chapel at Kilbrogan was built in 1796 by Father Shinnick, and remained in constant use until 1923, when it was abandoned due to a damaged roof and a fear that the walls were in a dangerous condition.
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