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Friends Burial Ground — Ballykelly (bourney Par.)

Burial ground
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Situated on NE facing slope in undulating pastureland. Roadway runs NW-SE along SW side of graveyard. Roughly rectangular graveyard surrounded by quite high stone wall with doorway roughly centre of SW wall. Burial Ground of Friends or Quakers. Tombstones date from mid-nineteenth century up to 1989. Essentially an nineteenth century graveyard with no evidence of earlier origin. Number of unmarkered graves in burial ground. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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