Quipolly Cemetery was originally listed and photographed by Roma Waldron, whose mother grew up at Quipolly. Roma says:
"It used to be called Cooipooli, an Aboriginal word for waterholes containing fish. It was later changed to Coeypolly, which is on all the old maps. I like my mother's explanation better. She claims that the first white man heard this very old Aboriginal lady calling out, "Cooee Polly" and did so for some time. It turned out her daughter was lost in the bush and the old lady was trying to find her.
"There used to be a post office, a public hall, an inn, wineshop, creamery, public school, a railway station and a blacksmith shop which have now gone and the only building left standing today is St Chad's Church."
Today, St Chad's is unused and practically derelict. Most of its windows are either missing or lying broken on the ground. The signboard in front of the church states that restoration work had been carried out at some unspecified time but there was little evidence of that to be seen in 2007.
The list and images were updated by Reg on 26 September 2007. One of the headstones was totally overgrown by a bush and could not be accessed and several others recorded by Roma in 1990 were not found.
The Quipolly Cemetery is now administered by the Liverpool Plains Shire Council. For further information, contact Council at PO Box 152, Quirindi NSW 2343; phone: 02 6746 1755; email: lpsc@lpsc.nsw.gov.au