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Quakerstown and Rockvale preserve different kinds of sacred place within the wider Boston division.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Boston · Irish · main form
- Boston · English · main form
Place & story
The well at Quakerstown
At Quakerstown, a natural basin in the limestone contains the well marked as Toberinneenboy on nineteenth-century maps. A partly collapsed circular drystone wall surrounds it, and a narrow rock-cut channel extends eastward. The National Monuments Service’s 2023 record notes that an inspection in 2000 found a small metal crucifix and coins among the stones. These objects record devotional use without establishing the well’s original date. [2]
Rockvale’s children’s burial ground
The 1842 Ordnance Survey map identified a children’s graveyard at Rockvale. The 2023 monument record describes a barely discernible enclosed area, roughly forty-two metres by thirty-seven, with a low scarp marking parts of its edge. A later field wall and hedge cross its interior. No grave markers were visible when recorded, leaving the mapped identification more explicit than the surviving surface traces. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Boston. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Quakerstown well, CL011-006, record updated 18 January 2023 · Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott, National Monuments Service
- Rockvale children’s burial ground, CL011-008, record updated 18 January 2023 · Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott, National Monuments Service
- Boston electoral division: constituent townlands · Townlands.ie / OpenStreetMap contributors
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-12-21. How this page was prepared.