What is recorded here

Burial Ground occupies a fertile hill in Ballinard, County Limerick, where an old church once stood before its walls disappeared from sight. The graveyard remains active beside the vanished building, proving that memory and mourning can continue even when architecture forgets itself. People still call the place the Old Abbey, carrying forward a name larger than the facts currently visible.

In 1840 the levelled church site (LI032-093001-) and graveyard was described as following; 'The old church (LI032-093001-) of this parish was situated on the top of a fertile hill in the townland of Ballinard half a mile south east of the village of Herbertstown but the foundation of its walls cannot now be traced. The old graveyard in which it stood is still much in use and is called by the people "the Old Abbey" (OSL). The revised edition of the OS 6-inch map incorrectly shows the church site as being located to the ENE of the graveyard wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 April 2019

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