Graveyard in Vicarstown, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Reference to disused graveyard here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 294). No visible surface remains. In the nineteenth century it was described as Kylemahoe with its disused graveyard and site of an old church (LA014-022001-) (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 294). The cropmark of an enclosure (LA014-022003-) is visible around the site on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYN 17) but no visible surface evidence survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA014-022002

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