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30 Oct 2025
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Cllr John Reilly at Faughart Graveyard
Cllr John Reilly tabled a motion at the Dundalk Municipal District February meeting, calling for the ownership and maintenance of Faughart Graveyard be taken over by the Office of Public Works (OPW) as a Heritage Site.
The February meeting was held at Faughart Community National School to mark the 1500th anniversary of the death of St Brigid. Cllr Reilly said "now that the euphoria of the Brigid 1500 celebrations is starting to die down, the reality is that we have a rich heritage site which we believe is close to the birthplace of St Brigid [and which] is in legal limbo currently."
Cllr Reilly says that there is an anomaly in relation to the ownership of the graveyard as it is not clear if it is a Catholic or Church of Ireland graveyard, but added that it is believed that it changed hands verbally to the Catholic church in the 1800s. He further added that he has met both the Catholic Archbishop and the Church of Ireland Archbishop on the matter.
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