charleville, c.1909-1912
during time of penal laws, practising catholic faith illegal. result, parish of charleville amalgamated parishes bruree , colmanswell, both in diocese of limerick. in 1704, fr. daniel mac namara of bruree registered catholic priest large pastoral area. fact catholics had attend mass secretly meant old chapel in holy cross cemetery abandoned. remains of church – overgrown ivy – still seen in centre of graveyard. indeed, many other pre-1700 churches, old church of holy cross literally became part of surrounding graveyard, in several gravestones, both marked , unmarked, found within building itself. upon 1 such gravestone latin epithaph none other seán clárach mac domhnaill (1691–1754), was, in time, chief poet of munster, native of charleville.
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