Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Portnahinch, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portnahinch
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.13838, -7.26842
- SMR number
- LA004-004001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Undivided church (LA004-004-) in fair condition situated on raised area close to river Barrow in NE quadrant of rectangular shaped graveyard.
Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 38m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church located in NE quadrant of graveyard. Graveyard contains 18th and 19th century memorials with a concentration of memorials inside and around the S , and W sides of the church. The graveyard is entered through a small gateway located off centre to S in the E wall near the SE angle of the graveyard. Beside this gateway to the S there is a stone stile. There is narrow gravelled pathway running E-W across the graveyard directly inside the gateway.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.