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Ballyoan Cemetery

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Derry City Council planned and built a Temple of Rest on site, but later changed its purpose to a cemetery caretaker's residence and then to a storage facility for council equipment. It is now empty and redundant.
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The cemetery is located on a hillside off the Rossdowney Road, Waterside, Derry. It looks out over the River Foyle and the city towards the Donegal Mountains. The cemetery was planned due to
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In the mid-1990s, over 400 human remains were found at the Waterside Workhouse,
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and the Altnagelvin Cemetery (instituted 1960) being full.
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