Piercing the sky, a slender tower in the graveyard of Brooklodge, County Cork. A square base with octagonal belfrey above, this is all that remains of a church erected here in the mid-19th century, on the site of an older structure (described as being in ruins as early as 1615): the main body of the building was demolished in 1923. In one corner of the surrounding graveyard is a large rectangular mausoleum, now almost enveloped in vegetation, erected by the Browne family who lived not far away at Riverstown House.
Time for the locals to adopt the graveyard and clear that vegetation.
Spire or Stupa
What if it should turn out eternity
Was but the steeple on our house of life
A Steeple on the House, Robert Frost
Upended steady leg of the great compass,
Ireland’s tallest spire.
Back home from Burma on holidays and walking
to Maynooth train station with my daughter.
‘See that temple over there’, she points,
‘that was once covered in gold, a long, long time ago.’
Joseph Woods
you must know every cemetery in Ireland !