Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilcolmanbane, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolmanbane
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.00215, -7.25934
- SMR number
- LA018-002----
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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
St Colman Ban may have founded an early church here and he is commemorated on the 19th October (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 244-5). A late medieval nave (L c. 11.1m, Wth c. 6.6m) and chancel (L c. 6.55m, Wth c. 4.5m, wall T c. 1.4m) church built of rough limestone blocks randomly coursed. The E window has been replaced by a modern entrance. The original doorway was possibly in the S wall. Plain rectangular window in W gable. The nave and chancel are divided by a segmental rounded arch (Wth c. 2.4m) and the interior of the nave is 1.2m lower than that of the chancel. All visible headstones in surrounding irregularly shaped graveyard, postdate 1700.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.