What is recorded here

Kilreaghan Grave Yard in County Offaly is a large irregular burial ground where no church wall remains visible, yet local memory points to a hidden rise in the centre as the lost building site. Five armorial plaques and a door now stand at Ballylin Demesne, supposedly carried from that destroyed church, while the graveyard itself keeps its dead beneath open grass. The place works like a sieve: it gave up its bright stones but refused to give up its shape, leaving behind a hollow that still feels occupied.

No surface trace visible of any church (OF014-031002-) inside large irregular shaped graveyard although the armorial plaques (OF015-008001/002/003/004/005-) and door at Ballylin Demesne are supposedly from the destroyed church at Kilreaghan. According to local information the rise of ground in the centre of the graveyard marks the site of the church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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