Tea Lane Graveyard

Tea Lane Graveyard is a Christian cemetery positioned in Celbridge, Ireland. The website is located 500 m northwest of the River Liffey and is the reputed burial website online of Saint Mochua of Timahoe. Mochua constructed a wood church at the web site and become the primary abbot of Clondalkin. It stood at the Slighe Mhor, an historic roadway which ran from Dublin to Galway. The Normans passed over manipulate of St Mochua's church to the Abbey Church of Saint Thomas the Martyr, Dublin in 1215; the abbey provided Celbridge with its clergymen.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey become suppressed and came into the possession of the Anglican Church of Ireland. The gift church constructing became built c. 1860, incorporating cloth from the medieval church. The placename dates to the nineteenth century, while many English people were brought over to work at Celbridge mill; the locals referred to the massive amounts of tea they drank, and the tealeaves that they threw into the roadway, and Church Lane changed into nicknamed "Tea Lane."