Graveyard in Moyanna, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Reference to a graveyard here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 291-294). Contains some uninscribed gravemarkers but visible inscribed headstones post date 1700 AD. Earliest headstone dates from 1736. There are some burials within the church, the earliest appears to be 1757. Graveyard was subject to a clean-up scheme around 1989, when at this time ivy was burnt of the walls of the church. Roughly rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 71m N-S; 66m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church in N quadrant of graveyard.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA014-016002

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