Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballyadding, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyadding
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins), Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.10662, -7.11429
- SMR number
- LA009-014----
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Shown on 5 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
Small late medieval parish church (dims. 12.9m E-W, 7.6m N-S, wall T 0.8m) built of rubble limestone, situated within a subrectangular graveyard (LA009-014001-). Small single-light window with broken ogee-head visible in E gable. Similar windows in N and S walls opposite each other. Walls of church survive to roof level except E end of S wall, and S end of W gable. Remains of doorway (Wth 0.85m) of hammer dressed and chamfered limestone blocks in W gable (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 192).
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
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.