The following teaser is from the an article by Nick Rabbiits, posted in the Limerick Leader:
AN online, searchable database of more than 70,000 people buried in Mount St Laurence is to be launched [August 20, 2013].
Limerick became the first local authority to put its burial registers online in 2009.
Now, staff from the City Archives in conjunction with the history department at Mary Immaculate College have spent the past two years manually transcribing thousands of handwritten records of those buried between 1855 and 2008 and have created a database.
The records include the name, age, address and in many cases, the cause of death of those buried in the 164-year-old cemetery.
Mount St Laurence graveyard has been the primary place of burial in Limerick City for all strata of society since its opening.
Thanks to Research Buzz for the Heads-Up.
