What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Laois holds a ruined church on its highest eastern point, marked on maps as Foy Church before becoming only a site. The irregular burial ground measures forty-one by fifty-one metres inside a nineteenth-century stone wall, while a simple cross-slab sits fifty metres away in a roadside ditch. Dead people may have walked this place for centuries, giving it shape long before surveyors drew its lines.

Marked on 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Foy Church (in Ruins)' but on 1910 edition as 'Site of'. Church (LA008-008-) located on top of the highest part of the E quadrant of the graveyard. Irregular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 41m E-W; 51m N-S) defined by a 19th century stone wall. Simple incised cross-slab (LA008-008002-) located 50m to NE in roadside ditch opposite entrance to graveyard (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 193). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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