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Graveyard in Castlebrack

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Square-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 68m N-S; 77m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with ruins of church (LA001-004003-) in the centre of the graveyard with site of castle (LA001-004001-) 60m to SE. Architectural fragment consisting of a hood moulding terminal of a late medieval window decorated in relief with a vine leaf motif has been inserted into the graveyard wall. Middle spandrel of a tiwn light ogee headed late medieval window with hollowed spandrel and second spandrel decorated with incised stiff leaf pattern has been inserted into S wall of church (LA001-004003-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA001-004

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  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gareth James, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Laois Today; individual photographer not named in article, www.laoistoday.ie
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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