Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Kyle (Clandonagh By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kyle (Clandonagh By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.96171, -7.65281
- SMR number
- LA015-023008-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the 19th century there was a stone known as St. Molua's Trough at the E end of the graveyard (LA015-023002-) under a hawthorn tree that was festooned with rags. Today the trough, stands mounted in concrete in the yard of the modern Catholic church in Ballaghmore village (LA015-033) and the sacred tree no longer survives. The rectangular sandstone trough (L 0.95m x 0.48m x 0.40m; T 0.13m) has a lip running around the inner edge of the top of the trough maybe to accommodate a lid for the trough. This stone may have been a saints reliquary.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.