"If you want to cover something up, bury it and say a few prayers over it "
says Paula Lonergan, writer of The Plot, her new play which opens 5th February in The New Theatre. Lonergan has been seeking out and visiting Cilín graves throughout Ireland for many months now and her play explores this dark and chilling side of our past. Dating back to early Christian times, Cilín graves and suicide plots can be found across the country in often the remotest and loneliest places on the edges of townlands and coastal areas. Mainly used to bury unbaptised, still-born babies, these unconsecrated plots were also used to bury suicides, strangers, changeling children and mothers who died in childbirth. "It is incredible to me that the church was able to dictate what happened to our bodies even after death" continues Lonergan.
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