Qualla: Abbeystrewry Church https://qualla.com/abbeystrewry-church en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Abbeystrewry Church https://qualla.com/abbeystrewry-church Abbeystrewry Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/abbeystrewry-church/ Abbeystrewry Church is a modest 19th-century Anglican church in the parish of Skibbereen in West Cork. Architecturally it is not exceptional: a gabled stone building completed in 1890, designed by the Cork architect William Henry Hill, with a tower carrying a peal of six bells installed in 2002. None of which is the reason most people who know the name Abbeystrewry know it. About a kilometre to the west, in the cemetery known as Abbeystrewry Burial Ground, the parish holds one of the largest Famine-era mass graves in Ireland. Estimates of the number of bodies buried there during 1845-1849 run between eight and ten thousand. A single low monument marks the field. The church and the graveyard are not on the same ground, but they belong to the same story.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/m/abbeystrewry-church-wp/gc1m-abbeystrewry-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abbeystrewry Church: A Chapel Older Than the Building https://qualla.com/abbeystrewry-church/ There has been a place of worship at Skibbereen since at least 1634, when records show a chapel here under the patronage of the Earl of Ossory. The present church is the second on its current site -- the first was built in 1827, costing IR£1,200, funded partly by a loan from the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/m/abbeystrewry-church-wp/gc1m-abbeystrewry-church-a-chapel-older-than-the-building.mp3 0:06 2 full Abbeystrewry Church: Skibbereen and the Famine https://qualla.com/abbeystrewry-church/ Skibbereen became, during the Great Famine of 1845-1849, one of the names by which the catastrophe was recognised internationally. London newspapers sent correspondents and artists; the engravings of starving families published in The Illustrated London News in 1847 were, for man...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/m/abbeystrewry-church-wp/gc1m-abbeystrewry-church-skibbereen-and-the-famine.mp3 0:06 3 full Abbeystrewry Church: The Bells of 2002 https://qualla.com/abbeystrewry-church/ The building work that has happened to Abbeystrewry Church since its 1890 completion is the slow, careful kind familiar to small rural parishes. In 2002 the parish hoped to acquire a peal of bells from St Nicholas' Church in Cork, which was being deconsecrated, but the bells turn...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/m/abbeystrewry-church-wp/gc1m-abbeystrewry-church-the-bells-of-2002.mp3 0:06 4 full Abbeystrewry Church: Reading the Place https://qualla.com/abbeystrewry-church/ Abbeystrewry Church is the kind of building you walk past without taking much notice, on the road into Skibbereen from the west. The graveyard, less visible, is harder to walk past once you know what is in it. The Famine pits at Abbeystrewry are among the most important burial si...

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