What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Laois holds a rectangular limestone church at its centre, surrounded by a stone wall and marked by cut fragments repurposed as gravemarkers. The church east gable still shows a splayed opening with a segmented top, while the graveyard stretches forty-eight metres north-south and sixty-three metres east-west. Martin Byrne tested the soil nearby in 2004, and Caimin O'Brien recorded the result in 2007. The place remains plain, patient and occupied by dead people whose names no longer appear on its stones.

A rectangular church (LA026-003-) constructed of roughly coursed limestone. East gable contains evidence of a splayed ope with segmented top. Some cut stone fragments have been used as gravemarkers in NE section of graveyard. Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 48m N-S; 63m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church in centre of graveyard. Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the church and graveyard was carried out by Martin Byrne in 2004 under excavation licence no. 04E1558. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

A medieval ecclesiastical site with reused stone fragments; significance lies in its potential link to early Christian burial practices in the region.

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