Graveyard in Lackan, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope beside a stream. A roughly rectangular area (c. 32m N-S; 57m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall. A church (WI010-011001-) represented by a subrectangular raised area (dims. c. 20m x 15m) is to SW of centre. Part of the N graveyard wall which stands on an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 1m) with an external fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 1m ) may be part of an earlier enclosure (WI010-011002-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI010-011003

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