County Graveyard Inventory Name of Fieldworker & Date of Audit Jimmy Lennon: July 2005 Name of Graveyard Ballinakill Dedication None Townland Ballinakill Parish Diocese & Clonmacnoise. Nearest National Primary National N63 Secondary or Regional Road. Current Status Open Graveyard Description Old church site, Pre Norman, memorials (mounted) Archaeological site. Box, flat & standing memorials Denomination RC Place of Worship No Pattern Day No Owner Longford County Council Number of inscribed memorials 77 Date of oldest inscription Christopr. Dillon son to Mary Flin? Dyed Decembr. 1734. Date of latest inscription James Magan died 5th November 2004 Access Through private lands Access Form Gravel Gateways & Stiles 1 wrought iron gate from the road to private land. 2 wrought iron gates {1 large & 1 small} from private property to Graveyard. Wheelchair Access None Parking Space Limited Pathways Gravel from road to Graveyard gate, grass only through Graveyard. Boundary Type Stonewall Boundary condition Good Terrain Terrain is generally flat except for areas where there are un-inscribed grave markers Growth of vegetation Grass well maintained two yew trees Overall condition Good Historical Ruins or Artefacts As listed below in RMP Section

Flat box-type memorial with inscription ‘Bishop’s Grave’

Grave memorial to an Egan family, dates on the memorial indicate many of them died in the ‘Great Famine’;

1 Inscription Of your charity pray for the soul of Patrick Egan of Clonbrock, who died Sept. 1849 aged 42 years Also his wife Anne died April 1849 aged 38 years. And their children; Elizabeth died 1846 aged 12 years. Denis, Mary, and Ann, died in 1847 aged respectively 9, 6, and 4 years. Erected by their sons James and Patrick Egan

Directional Signage and its condition None Information Panels and their condition None Signs of vandalism None Area Engineer Longford County Council Sanitary and Environment Dept. Tel. 043- 43356 Recorded in Irish Church Temporalities Yes Report for Period 1869-80 RMP. Number LFO13-045 Ecclesiastical remains. LFO13 – 04501Ecclesiastical enclosure LFO13 – 04502 Church. LFO13 – 04503 Architectural Fragment. LFO13- 04504 Cross-Slabs. LFO13 – 04505 Font Possible. LFO13 – 04506 Bullaun Stone. LFO13 – 04507 Buildings. LFO13 – 04508 Earthworks. RPS. Number Not listed Caretaker & contact number Mr. Eugene Mulvihill, Sharvogue, Killashee, Co. Longford. (No Phone number available) Graveyard Committee & contact number C/O Rev. Joe McGrath, Killashee. (087- 8363523 Clergy & contact number Rev. Joe McGrath, Killashee. (087- 8363523) Burial registers & their location and dates 21st July 1947 to present. Available at Local Studies Section, Longford Library HQ. Published references & location Ordnance Survey of the County Longford

2 John O’Donovan 1836-37.

History of the Diocese of Ardagh Revd. Dr. James McNamee. 1954.

History of the County Longford By James P. Farrell. 1891

Available at Local Studies Section, Longford Library HQ. Memorial inscription documentation Jimmy Lennon (Rough Proof Only) Location of transcripts Curracreehan, , Co. Longford.

3 Ballinakill Cemetery

Entrances

Mounted Slabs

4 Artefact

Artefact

5 Section of Boundary

Bishop’s Grave

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