Dublin Graveyards Directory

NAME:	RATHCOOLE
ADDRESS:	Main Street, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin.
UNDER THE CARE OF:	Select Vestry of Rathcoole.
CONTACT:	St. John's Rectory, Monastery Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Tel: (01) 4592160.
PERIOD OF USE:	c. 1780 to date.
PRESENT RECORD LOCATIONS:	Church of Ireland parish records pre-1870 were destroyed in 1922. More recent records are available at the Rectory, Clondalkin. A database transcript of i8 burials, mainly from the 1890s, is at www.irishgenealogy.ie
SURVEY:	Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland iv: p. 233 - 234. Egan, M.J.S. and Flatman, R.M. Memorials of the Dead: Dublin City and County, Volume 2, Dublin: Irish Genealogical Research Society, 1989, p. 144- The Irish Genealogist 6(4) 1983, p523 - 525.
ADDITIONAL:	Some gravestone inscriptions refer to people from Dublin City and Co. Kildare. Twenty-nine stones pre-date 1900. Graveyard contains the tomb of Richard Adkins Esq., of Athy who was killed by a blow from a jaunting car on the 11th February 1827. For further information see: Roy H. Byrne and Ann Graham From Generation to Generation, Dublin 1990.
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