Where is Robert Emmet buried?
One of the sources in the Irish Newspaper Archive is the Holly Bough, the county Cork publication which has been annual tradition in the county since 1897. Irish Newspaper Archives have now released 1927 to current. In 1970 the Bough carried an article on where the body of Robert Emmet lies buried. Emmet of course was executed on 20 September 1803 for his role in an uprising which he led that year. Is Emmet buried in Blennerville? Here what the Holly Bough had to say:
In recent years reference has been made to a tradition in Blennerville near Tralee, that the body of Robert Emmet lies buried there. John Murdoch ("Sunday Press" 18-12 1966) and Des Moore ("Sunday Independent" 19-3-1967) have given details of the Blennerville tradition, and more recently there was further reference in a television programme on R.T.E.
As the story is told, the head and body of Emmet was brought from Dublin by carmen plying between Tralee and Dublin and was secretly buried in a grave in the now disused Protestant churchyard in Blennerville. Emmet's mother was Elizabeth Mason, a daughter of James Mason and Catherine Power of Ballydowney near Killarney. Emmet's father, Dr. Robert Emmet was practising medicine in Cork City, when he met Elizabeth Mason on a visit there to her brother James, and he married her in 1750. Arising out of Elizabeth Mason's marriage settlement, Dr. Robert Emmet became entitled to a sum of £500 to be charged against certain lands, the property of the Masons, including Annagh near Blennerville. One of those who shared Emmet's revolutionary plans and was arrested after the rising in 1803, was his first cousin, St. John Mason of Ballydowney. Mason was arrested at Nenagh as he was trying to get back to Kerry. Emmet learned that Mason was in the same prison with him, Kilmainham, and prevailed on him to attempt to bribe one of the warders, George Dunn, to allow Emmet to see him. Unknown to Emmet the warder was an agent of the Government, and the attempt at escape failed. Mason, who was a barrister, appears to have been getting rid of the family lands in Kerry from as early as 1791 when he sold the lands of Annagh to Dr. Maurice Leyne, although they were already mortgaged for Dr. Emmet's marriage settlement.
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