Friary (in Ruins) Graveyard — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Friary Graveyard holds the ruined east gable of a late-medieval church, its limestone rubble still standing twenty metres long while the rest sank into earth. A barrel-vaulted chamber remains attached to the south wall, and a narrow slit with glazing-bar holes cuts the gable, perhaps once shaped like a trefoil. The place was also called Triogue, and it may have served as a parish church before becoming a graveyard. What is missing is easier to imagine than what remains: voices in the vault, burials beside the nave, and a building large enough to need a gable this wide.

Unclassified monastic establishment (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 369) also known as Triogue. Built of poorly coursed limestone rubble, remains consist of E gable of church (max. dims. 20.60m E-W, 5.50m N-S) with only the foundation level of its other walls surviving. A barrel-vaulted building (max. dims. 7.30m N-S, 5.30m E-W) attached to S wall of nave. Simple slit ope with glazing-bar-holes visible in E gable, which apparently was 'trefoil headed' (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 194). Probably a late-medieval parish church (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 180; Vol II, 587; JKAS 1904, Vol IV, 194) 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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