Grave Yard

The Society of Friends established a meeting at Forrest, alternatively known as Lambstown, in 1666, although its Meeting House was not built there until 1783 on land leased to Jacob Goff and the Friends by Issac Cullimore of Newtown. In 1841 Forest was united with the Wexford town meeting (Butler, D. M. 2004, 64). The Meeting House and attached burial ground are located towards the top of an E-facing slope c. 1 km NE of Taghmon. They are in a sub-rectangular plot (dims. 80m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) with a masonry wall (H 2m) and a large entrance gate with piers on the SE, or road side. The plot is divided in two by a NE-SW wall and the Meeting House was in the smaller (dim. 27m NW-SE), road-side plot. The meeting house is removed without trace, apart from the bases of two granite columns. The burial ground was behind the meeting house and burial is represented by c. 130 grave-mounds, but only c. 10 headstones dating from c. 1860-1920 are present. Compiled by: Michael Moore