Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sarcophagus (present location)
Ballinla, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinla
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballinla
- Coordinates
- 52.96048, -7.69451
- SMR number
- LA015-033----
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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
Originally located at E end of graveyard (LA015-023002-) under a hawthorn tree traditionally said to have been festooned with rags; it is now mounted in concrete in the yard of the modern Catholic church in Ballaghmore village. 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 sarcophagus or what may have been a saints reliquary.
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
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.