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Does anyone know the rough dates of when the "old" cemetery was in use, my ancestors & relatives(Reillys, Milloys, McGowans) wer buried there from the 1860s through to the 1940s ? For relatives buried there from the 1920s on, the St Peters records show Sections & Divisions within the cemetery. Do you know where Division W, Sections 17 & 18 might be ?

I do not know where Division W is. However Sector 18 is where my great grandparents (died 1936 & 1960) and other more recently dead relatives are. To find it you enter the main new part of the cemetery from London Road. Shortly after entering the road splits ahead and right. You need to turn right over a bridge. Follow the road and do not leave it. Several yards after the bridge the road turns 90 degrees left around a corner.

The road runs parallel to a fence / shrubbery on your left. The fence / shrubbery are separated from the road by a row of single graves on your left. On your right the cemetery is much wider.  Keep going for what seems like you are heading to the far end of the cemetery.

Sector 18 is on the right of the road you have been following. You will find it at the point that the cemetery seems to open up on both sides of the road. In other words there are several rows of graves on both sides of the road ~ rather than the single row of graves that you have had on your left since you crossed the bridge quite some distance behind you.

Sector 18 is quite a distance from London Road and is probably closer to the far boundary wall. Travelling at funeral speeds in a motor vehicle you are probably several minutes beyond the bridge. However, it is not right up against that far boundary as you are still a fair distance from that as well.

I can only hope that Sector 17 is next to Sector 18. However, I do not know for definite.