Quaker burial ground

By admin • April 29th, 2010

Quaker burial ground

Along with Ballykealey graveyard this 14.Quaker burial ground is a reminder ofthe once thriving Quaker community in Co. Carlow. Quakerism evolved in the Northof England in the seventeenth century and made its first inroads into the Carlow/Kildare region during the Cromwellian plantations of the 1650s. Many Quaker familiessettled in the Fenagh area, the most notable of whom were the Watson’s and the Leckyswho purchased large farms at Kilconner and Ballykealey respectively.

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