Preban: A Living Graveyard
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
This seven part series starting Monday August 17th, explores fascinating stories from a forgotten graveyard. Until 2010 Preban cemetery in Co Wicklow was completely overgrown and largely inaccessible. When the local community set about restoring their graveyard they discovered remarkable personal histories of their ancestors. These incude 1798 rebels, famine emigrants not to mention rock art that stretches back thousands of years. Tune in on Monday to find out more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey this is Paul Russell and you are listening to my single little |
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| 0:07.3 | I'm the one one. |
| 0:08.3 | Do my little boot thing so I'll give a hook what you do say girl like no you a little too tain. I'll be shooting that shot like |
| 0:15.9 | 2K girl like no. Tell my time I'm next. |
| 0:19.2 | Tell him you're fine. |
| 0:20.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:28.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
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| 0:38.0 | T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. People have been buried here for a long, long time. |
| 0:47.0 | This graveyard was like a lot of others in isolated areas was very obscured, hardly visible because of the amount of debris, you might say, |
| 0:57.0 | and foliage which covered them up. |
| 0:59.0 | The story that they've told here through their efforts can be used to tell a wider story about an awful lot of the key events in Irish history, going back from the |
| 1:08.6 | early medieval period all the way through to the modern period to the days we're living in today. As you walk around, you'll see Neolithic rock art, you see stone crosses. |
| 1:17.0 | One of the stone crosses may have even sat on top of the church that once stood here in the 12th century. |
| 1:22.0 | And then in 1798... that one |
| 1:25.0 | in the 12th century. And then in 1790s there was a rebellion here in the Wexford, South Wicklow area. |
| 1:29.0 | There was one over west and male and there was one up in the northeast around Antrim down all that area there. |
| 1:35.2 | What we really have is an open air art gallery and a museum. It's like a precious |
| 1:40.9 | flower in a garden that you cherish and you love and you just keep it and mind it and pass it on to the next generation. Hi, I'm Catherine, the head bookworm at the Shelterbox Book Club. |
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