Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballykelly (bourney Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykelly (bourney Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Friends Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 52.92520, -7.68983
- SMR number
- TN018-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
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
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.