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1. The Old Graveyards

   

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   We have seven churchyards in the Parish of Ferns, Barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford. These include an old and a new in Ferns, an old and a new in Clologue, an old and a new in Ballyduff and one old disused graveyard in Monasootha which is called Kilcomb Graveyard.

   The church ruined otherwise is in Kilcoomb graveyard. It is cross-shaped like a church. The present Catholic Churches of Ferns, Clologue and Ballyduff are each situated in the centre of the old Graveyards.

   The graveyards are level with a high ditch surrounding them, and some hawthorn bushes growing in top of it.

   Ballyduff old graveyard contains some very old monuments and crosses. The are mostly of the homemade type and some are flat slabs resting on four pillars, and other slabs are lying flat on the grave with the inscriptions on top. The earliest names inscribed on these tombs are a family of Cartons of Clonee, Parish of Ferns, Co. Wexford who died on the following dates :- 3rd April 1820 . 27th February 1827. 29th June 1829, 15th December 1830, and 26th September 1847. The latter died during the second year of the Great Famine.
   Other early dates 15th August 1832, and 28th June 1838, 25th June 1835 and 2nd December 1840.

   Kilcoomb Graveyard is the only disused grave-yard in the Parish of Ferns, Co. Wexford. It is in a field belonging to Mr James Byrne, Monasootha. It is said that it is over 70 years ago since a burial is remembered to

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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

   Annie Reddy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Askamore, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mr M. Neill

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Monasootagh, Co. Wexford