‘The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never any more the dead.’
From In a Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost
Photographs of Clonmeen Graveyard, County Cork
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Wonderful! Lines that reflect the mood of so many of these forgotten Cemeteries in this Country. St Johns Louth Village is just one of these fiercely guarded places by nettle and Briar…