9. SVT Fuerty Abbey

PULL OVER #3 Fuerty  Location: 53.610687, -8.269272 Just after the tree in the picture, there is parking space just before the church on the right. Pull over here to enjoy the audio pieces and to wander around this wonderful village. The graveyard here is one of the most interesting in the county. In it are the ruins of a Franciscan church in which 100 priests were massacred in Cromwellian times by Colonel Ormsby, the local tyrant. Some of the gravestones date back to 1720 and there are graves and tombs of many priests. Two headstones are of special interest. One, erected over the grave of a blacksmith, is carved to show anvil, bellows and smith's tongs. The other, over the grave of a shepherd, shows a sheep and shepherd's crook.