Killanena's Hidden Dead

31/07/2018

Another oppertunity to experience the welcome of our Hidden Dead back into our lives

21/11/2017

https://www.gofundme.com/killanenas-hidden-dead

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our team, Killanena’s Hidden Dead. This team has come together to try and reconnect the hidden men, women and children buried in Keanes Kyle, back to humanity. Our goal is to mentally and emotionally lift the memories of our hidden dead out of the darkness and into the light of our parish daily life.
The top priority for this group is to address the terrible shame of the inhumanity which for centuries has lead us to believe that we must secretly bury our unbaptised children and other supposedly tainted family members that have been given to us by God in unidentified unholy holes in unconsecrated ground.
While we in the hidden dead project team understand the mechanics of church teachings on original sin we do not see that as the business of this project.
The creation of this project is based on the fact of Tommy ‘Coolvoor’ Broderick’s death, the story Flan Broderick has written in his fictional attempt to trace the footsteps of the Hidden Dead trip from Cromwell butchery in the 1600s to the tragedy in Coolvoors house in 1923 which lead to the burial of Uncle Tommy in Keanes Kyle.
In order for us to reach our goals we are hoping to collectively come together as a community and reconnect these hidden souls back to our daily lives. We wish to do this in several ways, beginning with the creation of a walkway from the main road leading down to Keanes Kyle. This both has metaphoric and physical meaning, as we are not only creating a physical pathway to visit our hidden dead, we are metaphorically building a road to reconnect them with our daily lives.
For more information on our project please visit our website killanenashiddendead.wordpress.com. Here you will find more on the story behind our project. As our project is being run on a donation basis we kindly ask anyone who wishes to make a donation to do so by following the link below. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or private mail us on facebook.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our team, Killanena’s Hidden Dead. This team has come together to try and reconnect the hidden men, women and children buried in Keanes Kyle, back to humanity. Our goal is to mentally and emotionally lift the memories of our hidden dead ou...

14/11/2017

WHAT IS A HIDDEN DEAD GRAVE SITE?

This is a secret burial ground of ancient times. When you look at the main picture you will see what appears to be a fenced area of ground with stones scattered in a random fashion. In fact each of these stones although there is no words written on them give us highly valuable information.

Each of these no writing stones is a marker which tells us there is at least one maybe more bodies buried here at this exact spot. Each and every one of these stones tell us of a moment of unbearable heartbreak in many a parish house over a number of past century’s.

One of these stones tells us of a specific night of terror and heartbreak that happened in the house of my Grandparents James and Ellen (Coolvoor) Broderick on the 23rd of November 1923 nearly one hundred years ago. All these stones tell us that this is a graveyard site which has acted as

A child burial ground, (unconsecrated ground possibly going back to Pagan times)
A Killeen, (unconsecrated ground (probably of Christian times)
A Kyle, (consecrated ground) ( of Christian and Cromwell times)
The office of public works paperwork simply states that in 1834 the whole burial ground was a graveyard.
Note: Although the O.P.W. (Office of Public works) gives this date and description its representative archeologist Garoid O Conroy informed me that while the O.P.W know of this grave site it is not an officially registered graveyard.

The consecrated Kyle part of this graveyard has never been separately identified or registered as a consecrated burial ground due to the times that were in it when the consecration was performed. IE the clergy slaughtering times of Oliver Cromwell arguably the cruelest of all Englishmen to come to our Irish Shores.

WHEN?

DIFFICULT SEARCH FOR INFORMATION

I searched for but found it extremely difficult to find any written academic or religious history before 1834 which explained why:

Kyles came into existence
Consecrated Kyles were placed next to unconsecrated Child burial grounds / Killeens.
Unconsecrated Killeens were used to bury Baptised adults who did not die in a state of grace i.e. people who died through su***de or murder. Some families because of family history felt they had to bury their baptized child in these hidden sites us Coolvoor Brodericks being one of those families.
There is strong belief that although handicapped persons were baptized some catholic families in times gone by believing handicap to be a punishment buried their stricken relatives in these designated secret non human places.
Finally these places of unholy but convenient inhumanity not only exist in hidden away corners of parish fields they also exist within the walls of many institutions. I think it is fair to say that because of the nature of Government and religious business activities operated within these premises the numbers of hidden dead will be very high. However not all of these heartbreaking deaths will have a sinister history.

MAIN SOURCE OF ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE

Due to the lack of recorded evidence regarding hidden dead burial sites and how the Catholic church operated between the year 1600 and 1834 I decided to approach the Franciscan community for assistance. I thought to myself these guys came to Ireland with the Norman Invaders around the end of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th centuary. Right or wrong my logic was, this religious body unlike secular parish Catholic clergy of those days will have been under the protection of the predominantly Norman breed of English aristocrat.

My first stop was our local Friary their clergyman informed me that they would not hold that type of information locally. Our local Franciscan did however tell me that my best hope of help is to contact the keepers of their archives in their house of learning based in Killiney Dublin city. On a number of occasions I spoke to an individual at the house of learning. This man explained the difficulties the Catholic religious faced in those times not only in daily religious operations, even more terrifying was their struggle to stay alive due to persecution by Oliver Cromwell and his English forces.

02/11/2017

THIS JOURNEY WILL TAKE YOU TO…

First… our disowned but not forgotten souls…

Second… their hidden graves…

Third… hidden family torments…

WHO ARE WE?

We are a serious and determined project team who motivated by the sentiment you see in the picture are dedicated to the mission of reconnecting with the memories of our enforced hidden dead.

OUR OBJECTIVE OUR VISION

Bishop Willie Walsh provided the missing link of humanity to right a wrong that goes back as far as early Christian times; probably even pagan times. It was his act of humanity which allowed the priests of the Dioses of Killaloe to bless the grave sites of our hidden dead. On that day many years ago Bishop Willie threw in the humanity/ reconnection ball. From that moment the serious reconnection game was on.

03/04/2017

It's great to see interest being shown towards this project. Please keep liking and sharing and continue to invite your friends to this page. More information will follow very soon. There is a lot happening in the background.

29/03/2017

Good morning everybody. Could u please invite any of your friends to this page. We are hoping to reach as many as possible in order to generate interest. Thank you, have a great Wednesday 🌿🌿

28/03/2017

Be sure to check out the website killanenashiddendead.wordpress.com

07/03/2017

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