Qualla: Garfinny Church https://qualla.com/garfinny-church en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/garfinny-church-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Garfinny Church https://qualla.com/garfinny-church Garfinny Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/garfinny-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. One wall. That is all that is left of Garfinny Church - a single greenschist gable, 3.7 metres tall, standing in a small ancient graveyard two and a half kilometres east of Dingle. The roof is long gone. The other three walls have been pulled down for building stone, or have simply fallen and been carted off. What survives is the east gable and the dead. Among the dead is one Maurice Kennedy, whose 19th-century descendants raised a stone in his memory that turns out to be one of the most concise records of Cromwell's reshaping of Ireland that you will find anywhere.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/garfinny-church-wp/gc28-garfinny-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Garfinny Church: Greenschist and Gable https://qualla.com/garfinny-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The surviving wall is built of greenschist, a coarse green-grey metamorphic rock that takes its colour from the mineral chlorite and is common in the older bedrock of the Dingle Peninsula. The Dingle Beds have weathered the local greenschist in various shades over hundreds of mil...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/garfinny-church-wp/gc28-garfinny-church-greenschist-and-gable.mp3 0:06 2 full Garfinny Church: The Kennedy Stone https://qualla.com/garfinny-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. One stone in the graveyard tells an entire story. Its inscription, raised in 1816 by two descendants of the family, reads in part: 'Here lie Maurice Kennedy and his wife Judith Carrane, James Kennedy and his wife Alice Moriarty Achillon - said Maurice and James were the sons of J...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/garfinny-church-wp/gc28-garfinny-church-the-kennedy-stone.mp3 0:06 3 full Garfinny Church: Cromwell's Re-Sorting of Ireland https://qualla.com/garfinny-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. What forced John Kennedy out of Tipperary was the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, the legal instrument that translated Cromwellian military victory into permanent demographic change. Catholic landowners across the wealthier parts of Ireland were ordered to forfeit their e...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/garfinny-church-wp/gc28-garfinny-church-cromwells-re-sorting-of-ireland.mp3 0:06 4 full Garfinny Church: A Graveyard as Archive https://qualla.com/garfinny-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Irish graveyards are often the densest historical records in their parishes. Where formal records were burned or never kept, where churches lost their registers and landlords moved on, the headstones remained - cut once, set deep, and refusing to give up their facts. The Kennedy ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/2/8/garfinny-church-wp/gc28-garfinny-church-a-graveyard-as-archive.mp3 0:06 5 full Garfinny Church: What the Wall Sees https://qualla.com/garfinny-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Stand in front of the surviving east gable and you face the way the priest faced. The original altar would have been in front of you - long gone, perhaps reused as a fence post in some nearby field. Behind the wall, the small graveyard opens to the surrounding pasture, and beyond...

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