Churchtown cemetery, located just outside the town of Newcastle West, is still in use today. Chuchtown was probably best known for its lime quarry, it brought people from as far away as Abbeyfeale to sell a load of  turf and then buy a load of lime to bring back to burn or spread it on their fields selected for reclamation.

In the centre of the Graveyard stands the ruins of an old Cambro-Norman (Welsh-Norman) church dating back as far as 1690 and fell into rack and ruin in 1840 this was to dedicated to St. David, it had a small round-headed belfry on top of the Western gable. This was a mainly protestant graveyard but was used by all parishioners. Two churches were located in Churchtown at the time.

The church remained a place of worship until it was superseded by a new parish church on the southern end of the Square in 1777. After this the Glebeland was entrusted to the Protestant rector and later to Rev. Horatio Bolton Smith of Castle View. Some of the oldest headstones date back to d.1705 Elizabeth Brundenwell and her husband in d.1709. Within the church ruins there is a head stone in memory of John Newton d. 1715.