Huguenot Cemetery, Cork
{{short description|Cemetery in Cork, Ireland}}
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Huguenot Cemetery was created between 1710 and 1733 as a cemetery for the Huguenot inhabitants in the city of Cork.{{cite web |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20004103.html|title=City steps in to save Huguenot cemetery|newspaper=Irish Examiner|first=Eoin|last=English|date=23 May 2006|accessdate=31 July 2021}} It is believed to be one of the last two surviving Huguenot graveyards in western Europe.{{cite web |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/cork-city-council-buys-huguenot-graveyard-to-save-it-from-development-1.1007100 |title=Cork City Council buys Huguenot graveyard to save it from development |newspaper=Irishtimes.com |date=24 May 2006 |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}}
Cemetery
About 5,000 Huguenots came to Ireland during the time when they were fleeing religious persecution, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in their native France.{{cite web |url=http://celebratingcorkpast.com/huguenot/ |title=Huguenot Community in Cork – Celebrating Cork Past |newspaper=Celebratingcorkpast.com |date= |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}} Hundreds of these refugees settled in Cork. In the area of Lumley Street, now known as French Church Street, they built a school, an almshouse and a graveyard.{{cite book|author=Antoin O'Callaghan|title=The Churches of Cork City: An Illustrated History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45n4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT172|date=2016|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7509-6864-5|pages=172–}} The cemetery is home to the remains of some of the most prominent Huguenots of the city and it is understood that the remains of at least one former Lord Mayor of Cork are held within. The last recorded use of the graveyard for burial was in 1901. The cemetery is a recorded monument.
Further reading
- {{cite web |url=http://www.corkcity.ie/services/architects/huguenotcemeterycareyslane/ |title=Huguenot Cemetery, Carey's Lane |newspaper=Corkcity.ie |date= |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/mapsimages/corkphotographs/corkcameraclubhistoricalphotos/huguenotgraveyard/ |title=Huguenot Graveyard |newspaper=Corkpastandpresent.ie |date= |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}}
- {{cite web |url=http://huguenotsinireland.com/?page_id=33 |title=Huguenot Burial Grounds – Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland |newspaper=Huguenotsinireland.com |date= |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CC®no=20513141 |title=Huguenot Cemetery, French Church Street, Cork City, Cork City: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage |newspaper=Buildingsofireland.ie |date= |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.oscailtmagazine.com/unitarian%20magazine/Huguenot%20Commemoration.html |title=Huguenot Commemoration |newspaper=Oscailtmagazine.com |date= |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.excavations.ie/report/2007/Cork/0017194/ |title=17194 « Excavations |newspaper=Excavations.ie |date= |author= |accessdate= 23 October 2016}}
- {{cite book|author=Ben Wright|title=Flamenco Fugues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8gMFWB_Dm8C&pg=PA288|date=2013|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4817-5253-4}}
- {{cite book|author=Grace Lawless Lee|title=The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=03zGAjtTnTQC&pg=PA80|year=2009|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=978-0-8063-4929-9|pages=80–}}
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