What is recorded here

You can still see the church mound in Clonegall, three metres high and ringed by an old ditch, though the graveyard has eaten part of the bank. A ruined chapel stood there when surveyed in 1650, and a new church was built on the same mound later. The graveyard has a granite cross base and a quern stone brought into the present church, while the mound may have begun as a ringfort rather than a church at all.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 16 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly Tickell (JKAS 1960, 408) mentions reference to church or chapel in 'Moyacan' now Clonegall, in Royal Grant of 1627 to Sir Maurice Eustace. Down Survey records church as 'ruined' in 1650. Present remains consist of central raised mound (H c. 3m) enclosed by fosse with external bank visible from W-N-NE, elsewhere modified by extention of graveyard (CW018-016006-). Nineteenth-century church now stands on mound. Cross base of socketed squared granite boulder. Quern stone found in graveyard in 1902 (JAPMD 1905, 192) and placed in present church. Earthwork is probably ringfort in origin although also resembles modified motte.

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