City cemetery records containing 70,000 burials to go online

An online database of 70,000 people buried at one of Ireland’s largest cemeteries is nearing completion and will be officially launched next month.

City cemetery records containing 70,000 burials to go online

Staff from Limerick City Archives in conjunction with the History Department of Mary Immaculate College of Education, have spent the past two years manually transcribing thousands of handwritten records of those buried at the city’s Mount St Lawrence Cemetery between 1855 and 2008.

The records include the name, age, address and, in many cases, the cause of death.

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