Graveyard in Tirhogar, County Laois

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Simple undivided nave and chancel church (LA005-011) built with roughly coursed limestone blocks and rubble. In poor repair and no cut stone left in situ. Sundial and pieces of cut stone of late medieval origin in graveyard. Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 86m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church in N quadrant of graveyard. Stile and coffin stand off centre to W in S wall of graveyard beside gateway and a second stile in NW angle of the graveyard wall. Majority of headstones located to the S of the church, one of these memorials has a sunburst depicted on the top half of the stone , has been previously described as a sundial but may have been a memorial with a sunburst symbol on the top half of the stone which is located to the SW of the church (LA005-011). Unusually this memorial is facing W unlike all the other memorials in the graveyard that are facing E. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA005-011001

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