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Dysert near Castleisland

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  • 30-04-2012 5:32pm
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    jos28
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    I am researching my family tree. I am heading down to Kerry for the weekend and I plan to go searching for old family headstones (19th century) at Dysert graveyard. I've had a look on googlemaps but can't find a graveyard. It's possibly a Protestant plot that I am looking for. Anyone know where I might search.


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    lottpaul
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    Kerry County Council has an excellent site with maps, records etc

    http://www.kerrylaburials.ie/en/Index.aspx

    Best of luck


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    ejmaztec
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    lottpaul wrote: »
    Kerry County Council has an excellent site with maps, records etc

    http://www.kerrylaburials.ie/en/Index.aspx

    Best of luck

    It should be excellent, but it isn't unfortunately, as it's far from complete. If you look at the Castleisland, Dysert cemetery records, it only covers from 1980 to 2010.

    When the site was first announced, it gave the impression that the records went back a couple of hundred years, but the ones I've seen never went further back than the 20th Century.:(


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    555guy
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    jos28 wrote: »
    I am researching my family tree. I am heading down to Kerry for the weekend and I plan to go searching for old family headstones (19th century) at Dysert graveyard. I've had a look on googlemaps but can't find a graveyard. It's possibly a Protestant plot that I am looking for. Anyone know where I might search.

    There is an old graveyard directly across the road from where it says Kilcow on This Google Map - its about a mile or so out the Killarney road from Castleisland on the left hand side. You would quite easily pass it though if not looking out for it.


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    tvercetti
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    Theres a graveyard in Dysert just outside Lixnaw, might be a different Dysert as its quite a bit from Castleisland but there definitely is a graveyard there. On this map, I think the clouds are hiding the graveyard but its near the end of the road by the river.

    http://maps.google.ie/?ll=52.434246,-9.605527&spn=0.010492,0.027595&t=h&z=15


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    ejmaztec
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    tvercetti wrote: »
    Theres a graveyard in Dysert just outside Lixnaw, might be a different Dysert as its quite a bit from Castleisland but there definitely is a graveyard there. On this map, I think the clouds are hiding the graveyard but its near the end of the road by the river.



    http://maps.google.ie/?ll=52.434246,-9.605527&spn=0.010492,0.027595&t=h&z=15



    There are two Dyserts listed in Kerry, just to confuse people.:(


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    Kerry County Council
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    From Castleisland, travel out the N23 towards Farranfore, about 1.5 miles outside the town on the left hand side.


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    jos28
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    Thanks a million for all the replies. It's definitely the Dysert near Castleisland that I am looking for. Dragged the poor husband through the graveyard at Dysert near Lixnaw only to find out it was the wrong place ! Heading down on Friday, thanks to yourselves at least I know where to go this time :D


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