Survey Data
Reg No
15701119
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1775 - 1780
Coordinates
310072, 154538
Date Recorded
08/07/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Burial ground, opened 1778. Set in copse in grounds shared with Ballinclay House with part creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping centred on round-headed gateway framing arrow head-detailed flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A burial ground representing an important component of the ecclesiastical heritage of County Wexford. The burial ground replaced an earlier burial ground attached to a meeting house erected (1743) by John Wright (1698-1785) immediately behind Ballinclay House (see 15701118). His son, John Wright (1735-1811), was not in favour of having a meeting in such close proximity and, having taken back the earlier meeting house and burial ground, 'built a new meeting-house at his own expense and gave to Friends a lease of it' and, at a short distance, 'a piece of land for a burial-place' (Leadbeater 1823, 135). The meeting at Ballinclay was "laid down" in the early nineteenth century, the meeting house immediately demolished, but the burial ground remains in use. NOTE: The burial place of Joseph Waring (1791-1859) and Margaret Waring (née Wright) (1796-1855) of Ballinclay House (see 15701118); the Morrisons of Ballintore House (see 15701536); Alfred Haughton (1861-1947) and Rachel Haughton (née Roberts) (1873-1946) of Rockspring House (see 15701606); and Jonathan Haughton JP (1829-1909) and Anne Haughton (née Waring) (1828-1909) of Sweetfarm House (see 15702604).