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> From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > > perhaps the question should really be whether > yew-trees are associated with burial grounds? > In Ireland yews were associated with burial grounds from the earliest period into the modern. There are numerous references to monastic and ritual sites having both mounds (burial sites) and yews. In the modern period, Oscar Wilde's poems, for example, refer to yews in churchyards. Francine Nicholson %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%