What is recorded here

Burial Ground is a burial ground in Quakerstown, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a circular ringfort on a southeast-facing slope where the oldest visible headstone dates to 1877. A rectangular annexe abuts the northeast side, preserves remains of a probable Quaker Meeting House along its northwest wall, and opens through a two-metre-wide causewayed entrance that faces the main gateway.

Situated on a SE-facing slope in undulating pastureland. A circular ringfort (TN011-011001) that has been used as a burial ground, the oldest visible headstone dates to 1877. A rectangular annexe (dims. 19.4m NE-SW; 18.1m NW-SE) abuts the site to the NE which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m, int. H 0.27m; ext. H 1.22m) and fosse on the SE side (Wth 1.5m; D 0.22m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) at SE directly facing a gateway into the site. A stone wall surrounds both the circular enclosure and the annexe. Along the NW wall of the annexe are the remains of a rectangular stone structure, probably the Quaker's Meeting House (TN011-011002) marked on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. The site appears to have been a ringfort which was converted into a burial ground in the nineteenth century. Meeting House is marked on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map in ruins. Meeting house is likely to be of mid-late eighteenth-century date as it was in ruins by 1840. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

A 19th-century Christian burial ground associated with a ringfort; significance lies in its reuse of a prehistoric site for later funerary purposes.

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