Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Acragar, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Acragar
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09770, -7.30217
- SMR number
- LA008-008002-
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
Marked on 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Foy Church (in Ruins)' but on 1910 edition as 'Site of'. Church (LA008-008-) located on top of the highest part of the graveyard (LA008-008001-). Simple incised cross-slab in roadside ditch opposite entrance to graveyard (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 193).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.