What is recorded here
Grave Yard is a graveyard in Ballygriffin (ballygriffin Par.), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies flat pasture beside the Multeen River valley, with a disused quarry immediately to the west. A medieval church stands near the north end of the roughly trapezoidal area, which measures 46.6 metres north to south and is wider at the north than the south. The Ballygriffin fortified house and bawn are 70 metres to the south.
In flat pasture which falls away to the Multeen River valley to the W. There is an old disused quarry immediately W of the graveyard. A medieval church (TS060-049001-) is situated towards the N end of a roughly trapezoidal graveyard (dims. 46.6m N-S; wider E-W to the N (48m) than at the S (28.8m)). Ballygriffin fortified house (TS060-050001-) and bawn (TS060-050002-) are 70m to the S. There are very few gravestones in the interior, these being in the S part of the graveyard and re-positioned as a result of a graveyard clean-up scheme. There is a 17th graveslab (TS060-049004-) within the church interior.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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