The newer of these, adjacent to St Anne's church (built in 1824) has one grave of interest: a flat horizontal tombstone commemorating Mark Anthony of Carrigcastle (1786 – 1 June 1867) who was an officer in the Royal Navy and served in the battle of Trafalgar.

Regarding the third: the 1837 Ordnance survey shows a (now defunct) burial ground in a stone-walled circular enclosure half a mile to the west of the village named locally as Cathair Breac.

On another hill in Carrigcastle (called Mandeville's Rock) south-west of the village, there is a subterranean neolithic corbel-roofed chamber, which was accidentally unearthed by a bulldozer during land reclamation in the early 1970s.

While he taught there, promising children from other school catchment areas attended, including John Kiely of Stradbally (later FRCSI) and David Hill of Kilmacthomas (later MPSI).

Walsh was succeeded by Tom Cashin NT of Stradbally who taught in Ballylaneen until the school's closure and who features in accounts of the disappearance of Larry Griffin, the missing postman from Kilmacthomas in 1929.

The old graveyard in Ballylaneen is the burial place of the famous composer of Christian poetry in Munster Irish Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin.

The Irish translation on the black plastic plaque (shown right) was done by Tom Walsh (Tomas Breatnac), the teacher in the old National School in the early 1900s.

Up to the time of his death, Tadhg Gaelach was admired and possibly sometimes looked after by a relatively prosperous local Catholic farming family, the O'Callaghans.

Other patrons of his included an O'Phelan (Faoláin) family of the Decies, and one of his songs is written in their honour ("Do Seoirse agus Domhnall Ó Faoiláin" to be sung to the air of "Bonny Jane", see https://archive.org/stream/piousmiscellanyo00suoft#page/82/mode/2up).