In a message dated 08/24/2001 2:50:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > My ancestor Samuel Smith is listed on the Griffith's Valuation at > Keenaghan in Armagh. Does anyone know if these was a cemetery there? The > children, born in Keenaghan in the 1820's-1830's seemed to all go to > Charlemont Church in Loughgall, Armagh to be married. I didn't see a > church or cemetery listed on Griffith's for Keenaghan. I would like to > be able to find out where the people living in Keenaghan would have been > buried in the hope of finding the burial place of our ancestors. Any > advice would be appreciated. > -- > Sharon McBride > Perth, Western Australia > Sharon. According to Mitchell's Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards there was no graveyard attached to the church in Keenaghan, the church was RC. The village of Loughgall had a graveyard but no church. The town of Charlemont had a Methodist church but no graveyard attached to it. In the civil parish of Loughgall there were ll churches and 5 graveyards as of mid -nineteenth c. The religious parishes and Civil parishes did not always co-incide so it would be wise to locate in the Griffith Valuation the nearest church of the right denomination and then look for the graveyard it would have used. Ryan's Irish Records and Sources for Family History identifies Cof I and Presbyterian churches for Loughgall and there is a present day RC church in Loughgall. If you contact me off list with your ancestors religion I can give you the dates for which the repective churches have records and the references for those graveyards in Loughgall CP listed by Mitchell. I got a chuckle out of the subject line of your post, it brought back an old childhood joke in which the answer to your subject line question is "Nowhere, they don't bury them 'til they die! " Sorry, but I couldn't resist:-) Gwen