| Tea Lane Graveyard | |
| Map Type: | Ireland |
| Established: | 7th century AD |
| Location: | Church Road, Celbridge, County Kildare |
| Country: | Republic of Ireland |
| Type: | Christian |
| Style: | Rural cemetery |
| Owner: | Glasnevin Trust |
| Size: | 3,140 m2 (0.775 acre) |
| Graves: | thousands |
| Findagraveid: | 2640097 |
Tea Lane Graveyard (Irish: Reilig Lána an Tae) is a Christian cemetery located in Celbridge, Ireland.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The site is located 500 m northwest of the River Liffey and is the reputed burial site of Saint Mochua of Timahoe (died 657). Mochua built a wooden church on the site and was the first abbot of Clondalkin. It stood on the Slighe Mhor, an ancient roadway which ran from Dublin to Galway.[5]
The Normans handed over control of St Mochua's church to the Abbey Church of Saint Thomas the Martyr, Dublin in 1215; the abbey supplied Celbridge with its priests. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey was suppressed and came into the possession of the Anglican Church of Ireland.[6]
The present church building was built c. 1860, incorporating material from the medieval church (c. 1600).[7]
The placename dates to the 19th century, when many English workers were brought over to work at Celbridge mill; the locals noted the large amounts of tea they drank, and the tealeaves that they threw into the roadway,[8] and Church Lane was nicknamed "Tea Lane."[9]