Overview
Grave Yard — Labaun is recorded as Graveyard in Westmeath. The remains of an unclassified castle site (WM030-038----) possibly Ballyloughloe Castle are located 270m to the N and an Anglo-Norman motte and bailey castle (WM030-047----) is located 80m to the E. A lake known as Lough Luatha from which the placename Ballyloughloe is derived is located immediately N of the castle site (WM030-038----).
Who made it and when
The saved account records: The entire interior of the graveyard is very badly overgrown with undergrowth and vegetation, nettles etc. Part of the remains of a collapsed post-medieval C of I church (Holy Trinity) can be made out, though it is badly obscured by vegetation cover.
How it was made and used
The saved account records: 95m NE-SW), enclosed by a poorly preserved stone wall.
What was found
The saved account records: The graveyard in the townland of Labaun is known today as Mount Temple graveyard and was formerly known as Ballyloughloe graveyard, it was described in 1983 as following: ‘The remains of a roughly rectangular graveyard (dims.
What remains
The saved account records: A short section of the N wall of the levelled medieval church remains upstanding 9m to the S of the ruins of the C of I church.
Why it mattered
Grave Yard — Labaun matters because the source ties graveyard to this exact landscape and preserves evidence that a bare map name loses. The saved account adds: The remains of an unclassified castle site (WM030-038----) possibly Ballyloughloe Castle are located 270m to the N and an Anglo-Norman motte and bailey castle (WM030-047----) is located 80m to the E.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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