Ivy Church (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ivy Church vanished between 1841 and 1910, leaving only a seven-decade-old memory and a low eastern wall buried beneath graveyard soil. The building transformed from documented ruins into an absent site while people continued dying, burying and forgetting the chamber that once held them. Its name survives only because a cartographer wrote it down before the land swallowed the last visible proof.

Marked on 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Ivy Church (in Ruins)' but on 1910 edition as 'Site of'. Only a low stretch of the E wall (H 0.7m; wall T 0.8m; L 10m) of the church survives in a raised area in the E quadrant of the graveyard (LA008-008001-). Simple incised cross-slab (LA008-008002-) located 50m NE of the church in the roadside ditch opposite entrance to graveyard (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 193). Large levelled enclosure (LA008-007-) located 85m to N of church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 07 October 2010

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