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Grave Yd.

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Grave Yd. is a graveyard in Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a slight rise immediately east of John Street and belongs to the medieval parish church of St. John. A stone boundary encloses the rectangle, with its southwest, southeast and greater part of its northeast walls sharing a line with the town wall.
On a slight rise immediately E of John Street, a large rectangular graveyard associated with the medieval parish church of St. John (TS061-025013-). It is enclosed by a stone boundary, the SW, SE, and greater part of the NE walls of which are co-terminous with the town wall (TS061-025023-). In 2000 an archaeological excavation in Agar's Lane, which was created in 1784, revealed 13th/14th-century burials indicating that the graveyard originally extended further N than the present boundary (Gregory 2002, 312-13). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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