What is recorded here

Graveyard in Clonmeen South was a large burial place surrounding a church on a low ridge in County Laois, though no graves remain visible today. Carrigan wrote that interments happened there despite the absence of marked graves, suggesting the earth itself forgot the shapes of the dead. The surviving rubble wall hints at a boundary between the living and those who stopped appearing, while the missing graveyard reminds us that memory can vanish even when loss is real.

Situated on a low ridge. Church (LA033-010) described as measuring 39 feet in length and 35.5 feet in width withdoorwall in south wall (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 345). No visible surface remains except a rubble limestone wall running E-W for 10m. No visible remains of graveyard. Described by Carrigan as'Clonmeen Church (LA033-010) is about 200 yards south of the Abbey (LA033-009001-). No interments have taken place, nor are there any traces of graves. Nevertheless there was a very large graveyard all around the church' (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 345). No graveyard area indicated on current edition of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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