What is recorded here

Eglish is a lost place in County Laois where a monastery and church of St. Nicholas once stood. The graveyard has been unused so long that no graves or grave-stones remain visible. What is left is a ghost story written in soil: a church forty-eight feet long, other building foundations around it, and three-quarters of an Irish acre of forgotten life.

Known as Church (LA027-030001-) of St. Nicholas and was 48 feet long (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). Only the foundations survived in the early 1900s, with further building foundations (LA027-030002-) around it. Tradition of a monastery here. No grave markers were visible in the graveyard which had been disused for a long period of time (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). No visible surface remains. All around the church are traces of foundations, & c., covering three-quarters of an Irish acre. The graveyard has been unused for so very long a period that no graves or grave-stones, are now visible.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Christian burial site associated with a medieval church; significance lies in its historical connection to St. Nicholas and the surrounding ecclesiastical foundations.

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