What is recorded here

Carrigeen church stands in ruins inside a circular stone-walled graveyard in County Laois, where a lost cross-slab once marked the sacred heart. Leask recorded the slab in 1939 with a Greek cross bound inside a circle and strange hooked lines curling from its arms. The church has given up its best stone to Clonaslee, leaving behind an empty circle and a quiet warning that even memory can be carried elsewhere.

In low lying area, undifferentiated church (LA012-013001-) within an almost circular graveyard (LA002-013002-) which is delimited by a stone wall. Cross-slabs originally came from here but have now been moved to Clonaslee Catholic church (LA002:012). Depicted as Carrigeen no. 1 by Leask in 1939 and described as a 'pillar slab, 5 ft. 4 ins. Long by 1 ft. 4 ins. Wide at broadest part; some parts spalled off. An incised Greek cross in a circle occupies central position. The upper arm of cross is two lined and starts from a curved double pot-hook line - roughly concentric with central circle and hooked at extremities and finish in a half round expansion. The lower member shaft is of two lines and finishes in the same way but diverges near the circle into two short curves concentric with it' (Leask 1939, 187). 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: 17 December 2007

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