What is recorded here

Burial Gd. (Disused) is a vanished graveyard in County Laois, Ireland, marked on maps from 1841 to 1908 but no longer visible except through local memory. It lies in undulating countryside near Graigue, where a small cluster of rocks and faint human belief are all that remain of the dead once laid there. The land has taken back its own shape, leaving behind only the possibility that burial, map-making and forgetting can all happen in the same place.

Marked on the 1841 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. In undulating countryside. Local tradition of a graveyard here (Carrigan 1905, 282). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'The Ordnance Map enters a "Burial Ground" in Michael Hennessy's "Well field" in Graigue. The place has no appearance now of having ever been a graveyard, nor is there anything here to attract notice, save a little cluster of rocks that crop up naturally. There is a vague notion among the people that a graveyard was once there, but nothing further can now be ascertained respecting it' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 282). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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