• Digital collection of World War I gravestones and memorials in County Kildare now online

    Digital collection of World War I gravestones and memorials in County Kildare now online

    To mark Heritage Week 2026 and its theme of Heritage at Risk, Kildare County Archives is pleased to make a collection of images of World War I gravestones and memorials located in County Kildare available online. The collection can be viewed at here. Between 2016-2020 the County Kildare Decade of Commemorations Committee commissioned photographer, Seán Sourke, Naas, Co. Kildare, to locate and photograph the World War I graves and memorials as a permanent memorial of the war dead in the county. County Kildare was an…

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