Grave Yard, Kyle, Co. Tipperary
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Burial Grounds
On a low natural hillock in County Tipperary, a small grove of trees marks what was once a churchyard and a burial ground for stillborn children.
There are no headstones, no grave markers, and no visible sign that this was ever a place of interment. The church itself has vanished entirely, its footprint now occupied by a boundary fence between a modern bungalow and the field to the south. The grove was planted by the landowner on the very spot where the church and graveyard once stood, making it, in a quiet way, a memorial that most passers-by would never read as one.
The graveyard's history can be traced through a handful of nineteenth-century sources. By 1840, the Ordnance Survey Letters, compiled during the great topographical survey of Ireland, recorded that the churchyard was
