Ballyea South Cemetery Questions

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s1nead
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Ballyea South Cemetery Questions

Post by s1nead » Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:56 pm

I am SO excited right now!
A fellow member of a genealogy group who lives in Ennistymon has located the crypt of my great great grandmother in the Ballyea South Cemetery.

I am including pictures she has taken of the crypt and its inscription.

Does anyone know anything about this cemetery?

I would like to contact someone to ask if anyone else is also buried within this crypt..

My great great grandfather who had erected the crypt died two years later so I wonder where he is, if not there.

The Clare Library has posted the transcriptions from this cemetery
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... ptions.htm
But only from 1942 .....

The kind woman who took these pictures said that this is a very small cemetery and only TWO graves have inscriptions, Reily & Doherty.
So ~ are there TWO separate Ballyea South Cemeteries?

Is this cemetery connected with St John the Baptist?

Why do you think a prominent resident of Ennistymon (Woodpark House) be buried at Ballyea and not in Ennistymon?

Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Susan Reilly DeVore
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murf
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Re: Ballyea South Cemetery Questions

Post by murf » Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:36 pm

Susan
The Ballyea cemetery transcriptions on the Clare Lib site refer to the Ballyea graveyard in Killone Parish. If you check the Townlands page at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... nland1.htm you will observe there are several Ballyea's including Ballyea South near Ennistymon.
Afraid I'm not much help with your other questions.
Cheers
Murf

s1nead
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Re: Ballyea South Cemetery Questions

Post by s1nead » Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:40 am

Thank you!
You have helped me!

lisa_mariemullins
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Re: Ballyea South Cemetery Questions

Post by lisa_mariemullins » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:10 am

Hi Susan,
I just had a look at the 1842 map of county Clare, according to that the burial ground in Ballyea South was called Knocknakilla burial ground (If I am reading it right!)

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... gh_tab.htm
Knocknakilla is a townland in Inagh in the Tithe Applotment Books

s1nead
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Re: Ballyea South Cemetery Questions

Post by s1nead » Fri Oct 17, 2014 5:40 pm

Hi Lisa!

I'm sorry for not acknowledging this post from you until now but I am JUST reading it for the first time!!

I'm going to check this info right now!!

Thank you!!!

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