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School: Ballyboghill

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Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
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P.J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 369

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    There are four graveyards in the parish. Ballyboghill, Naul, Wespalstown and Hollywood all still in use. Ballyboghill graveyard in on a hill and slopes from north to south. It is surrounded by beautiful palm yews and lime trees and a path lies all around.
    There are very old tombstones and crosses there. There is one tombstone lying flat within the ruin and it bears the name of John Kelly, a tanner from Dublin who was buried there in the year seventeen fifty.
    In one corner of the graveyard there is an underground cell, now used as a skull hole and some priests when waiting long ago said that this cell was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Madge Keely
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mainscourt, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mr Sweetman
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin