School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Madge Keely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mainscourt, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr Sweetman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin