Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Ballynahown, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14272, -7.62814
- SMR number
- LA002-013005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on W facing slope of rising ground in upland area with nearby stream 45m to the E of the graveyard (LA002-013002-). Poorly preserved church located in the centre of a D-shaped graveyard defined by a sandstone wall . Low earth and stone bank with traces of a outer fosse visible at E only; this bank runs out from the base of the graveyard wall at SE and forms a circular boundary to the E of the upstanding graveyard wall. This bank appears to be the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary or may be remains of a small ecclesiastical enclosure (LA002-013004-). Only the E gable of the church (LA002-013001-) stands in the centre of the graveyard. Small aumbry located off centre to S in E wall with destroyed E window in centre of E gable. The base of the aumbry is constructed with a re-used early christian sandstone cross-slab (Wth 0.32m; T 0.07m; L 0.95m) decorated with a double line incised cross with circular base (Feehan 1983, 410).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.