rorkesdriftvc.com :: View topic - John Connolly

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:15 am

Martin/Forum

Please do you know the Cemetery in Castletown, Co Cork where John Connolly is buried and if he has a headstone.

Thanks

Andy

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:15 pm

There is a website with all the 300 Gravestones in the Castletown churchyard pictured on it. I couldn't find one for John Connolly. It also features nearby Kinneigh gravestones and they are all indexed by surname. No connolly. Either RC or COI.

I found a Connolly family on the 1851 census for Castletown but no 6 year old John Connolly. In the texts I have he is listed as being as from Trevethin (Monmouthshire) which in the 19th Century had a huge influx of Irish immigrants for the iron and coal industries.

I am not very well versed in the defenders of Rorke's Drift though and others are far better qualified than I (Martin et al). Perhaps it is an unmarked grave?