Site of Kylemahoe Church — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kylemahoe Church vanished so completely that only a faint cropmark outlines its lost enclosure, hiding the building and graveyard beneath ordinary soil. The disappearance is not emptiness; it is a invitation to imagine the people who prayed there, buried their dead and then abandoned the place to forgetting. What remains is a shadow shape in the land, waiting for someone to notice the absence and give it life again.

Reference to the site of an old church and disused graveyard (LA014-022002-) here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 294). No visible surface remains. In the nineteenth century it was described as Kylemahoe with its disused graveyard (LA014-022002-) and site of an old church (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 294). The cropmark of an enclosure (LA014-022003-) is visible around the site on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYN 17) but no visible surface evidence survives. 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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