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On a sheltered slope in County Carlow, a ruined church lies buried under grass and memory. Its walls have collapsed into low banks, yet the rectangular shape still marks the ground where people gathered, prayed and were buried. A carved stone head recovered from the graveyard now sits in Carlow County Museum, carrying fragments of the place into another room. The church has disappeared, but it has not stopped speaking.

On a NE-facing slope in undulating terrain. The church is located S of centre in the graveyard (CW007-025002-). A rectangular church (overall dims. 16.5m E-W; 8.6m N-S; int. dims. c. 13m E-W; c. 6.5m N-S) orientated E-W. The walls have largely collapsed and the outline is evident as a low, grass-covered bank (W wall int. H c. 0.9m; ext. H 0.45m; E wall int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.72m). There is a gap in the N wall 4.7m from the W gable which is likely to have been a doorway. There may also have been a doorway opposite in the S wall but this area is very overgrown and obscured by debris from the graveyard clean-up. A carved stone head (CW007-167----) found in the graveyard is now in Carlow County Museum. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 June 2015

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