What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Laois holds a ruined nave and chancel church dedicated to St. Fintan, its roughly coursed limestone blocks still standing inside an irregular stone-walled enclosure nearly fifty metres across. Post-1700 memorials line the wall while the church sits in the north quadrant, marked only by a possible doorway at the east end of the south wall. The place has kept its shape through loss of roof, fixture and certainty, which is why it still feels like a living memory rather than a dead ruin.

Dedicated to St. Fintan (Comerford 106-107). It consists of the ruins of a divided nave and chancel church (LA029-025), built with roughly coursed limestone blocks. An opening in the East end of the South wall may represent the doorway. No opening between nave and chancel. Otherwise featureless. Irregularly shaped graveyard (int. dims. 49m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church located in N quadrant of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Early Christian church and burial site, likely 7th–10th century. Associated with St. Fintan, it reflects the monastic tradition of the Irish Highlands.

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