Graveyard in Rahin, County Laois

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What is recorded here

A rectangular church (LA026-003-) constructed of roughly coursed limestone. East gable contains evidence of a splayed ope with segmented top. Some cut stone fragments have been used as gravemarkers in NE section of graveyard. Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 48m N-S; 63m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church in centre of graveyard. Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the church and graveyard was carried out by Martin Byrne in 2004 under excavation licence no. 04E1558.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA026-003001

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