File:St. Mary's Collegiate Church & Graveyard In Howth (Ireland) (7895972616).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (6,000 × 4,000 pixels, file size: 3.59 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description

Every time I visit Howth I check out this old graveyard to see what changes if any have taken place. There are many identified burials (some very old and some very recent) but some are not identified or the grave markers have totally disintegrated or else do not identify the person.

When I first visited many years ago there was a simple wooden cross with a teddy bear attached to it but recently the stuffed bear was removed.

The "Stranger's Bank" was used for unidentified victims of disasters at sea. When the Howth tram line was built in the last years of the 19th century, an unknown worker died and was buried and his work colleagues set up two tram rails as a memorial.


The last time I visited access was limited because of damage due to flooding. In October 2011 here in Dublin we had the heaviest rainfall ever as one month’s rain fell in a day. It was so bad in Howth that the flow of water led the graveyard wall collapsing which left several coffins exposed and floating to the surface.
Date Taken on 30 August 2012, 14:14
Source St. Mary's Collegiate Church & Graveyard In Howth (Ireland)
Author William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland
Camera location53° 23′ 15.02″ N, 6° 03′ 57.49″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by infomatique at https://flickr.com/photos/80824546@N00/7895972616. It was reviewed on 19 February 2022 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

19 February 2022

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current00:19, 19 February 2022Thumbnail for version as of 00:19, 19 February 20226,000 × 4,000 (3.59 MB)SeichanGant (talk | contribs)Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:St._Mary%27s_Collegiate_Church_%26_Graveyard_In_Howth_(Ireland)_(7895972616).jpg&oldid=927789437"