What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on high ground in County Laois, overlooking a valley and holding a late medieval church built from rough limestone. St. Colman Ban may have founded an early church there, giving the place a Christian identity older than its surviving stones. The D-shaped enclosure measures thirty-five by forty metres, and every visible headstone appears after 1700 AD, suggesting continuity rather than unbroken memory. People may have kept returning because the view, the church and the buried dead made the site useful for generations.

On very high ground overlooking valley. St. Colman Ban may have founded an early church here. He is commemorated on the 19th October (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 244-5). A late medieval church (LA018-002-) with divided nave and chancel built with rough limestone blocks randomly coursed. All visible headstones post date 1700 AD. Roughly D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 35m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church in centre of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

A Neolithic or early Christian burial site, possibly associated with St. Colman Ban; its location suggests ritual or ecclesiastical significance in the early medieval period.

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