Ballinla, sarcophagus in County Laois

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What is recorded here

Originally located at E end of graveyard (LA015-023002-) under a hawthorn tree traditionally said to have been festooned with rags; it is now mounted in concrete in the yard of the modern Catholic church in Ballaghmore village. The rectangular sandstone trough (L 0.95m x 0.48m x 0.40m; T 0.13m) has a lip running around the inner edge of the top of the trough maybe to accommodate a lid for the sarcophagus or what may have been a saints reliquary.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA015-033

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