There are many signs to direct you to the cemetery location. The property is fenced but there is no signage. A historical marker is located within the front gate and the grounds are clean. There are no majestic taller stones but the Edwards family is well represented in the property with one especially large granite memorial that is about waist high and accommodates three family members. Trees are located through the land and some curbing is installed around graves. One plot is enveloped in antique fencing. Many graves are covered in concrete and shells. The cemetery is well maintained and in 2018 has 282 burials.



From Ireland proper take Hwy 932 until reaching CR 428 where you will turn left. Follow that road until you see CR 437 where you will turn right. The cemetery is located on the left side of the road, set back a ways, before it dead ends into private property.



Ireland Cemetery This site was once the family burial plot for the Daniel Webster (D.W.) Edwards family. The first marked grave is for his one-year-old son, Sterling P. Edwards, dating to October 1873. Several stones indicate other unmarked graves. Edwards settled in Texas after his Civil War regiment, the 11th Missouri Infantry, disbanded while in Texas in 1865. The next year, he married the widowed Elizabeth Moore Roberts. In 1871, he purchased land in this area, and his parents, Micajah and Matilda (Poor), later moved here from Missouri. Other family members who came include Allison Micajah Edwards, William P. and his wife, Eliza Jane (Faubion) Edwards, and several Faubion family members. In this community, D.W. and Elizabeth reared her two children and children of their own, including Daniel Lee Edwards, who, in 1920, donated the graveyard to the Ireland Cemetery Association. Early families interred here represent the cultures, occupations and customs of the community. Family names include Austin, Coston, Davis, Dooley, Faubion, Hampton, Huckabee, Hull, Kight, Laing, Lovelace, Neyland, Oldham, Pearson, Pietzsch, Taylor, Tyler, Walker, Williams, Walsleben and Wilson. Historic Texas Cemetery – 2002