We are looking for YOUR memories, stories, or local history information about St. Finian’s Esker church site & graveyard, Esker, Co. Dublin – big or small!
Did you used to visit it when you were a child? Or have relatives buried there? Or did you tell each other stories about who was buried there, as kids?
Drop your details here right away, so that Archaeologist John Tierney of Eachtra Heritage and Historic Graves can contact you to record these memories. He is gathering these memories to create an eBook for St. Finian’s!
We received funding for this from the Community Grants Scheme from by @HeritageHubIRE The Heritage Council. Let us know (fill in the contact form ) if you want to take part in recording your memories?
We hope you can join us 23rd September at St. Finian’s (details to follow next week) as John records memories and talks attendees through some of the interesting finds from his survey. This built on the excellent work done by a group of SOL members during 20/21. This is a community training project intended to gather stories of the historic graveyards of Lucan, Co. Dublin. You can view the entry for St. Finian’s here: https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/st-finian-s-esker-church/du-stfi and you, the members, are encouraged to photograph gravestones to add to this survey. People unable to attend the workshop will still be able to submit their stories in written, audio or video format. The project is being directed by archaeologist John Tierney of Eachtra (contact john@eachtra.ie) who directs the Historic Graves Project in tandem with the Society for Old Lucan team.
We are thrilled that this work is going ahead and we feel we have achieved so much for St. Finian’s as part of the “Adopt a Monument” @AaMIreland project. #LocalHistory
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