Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilcolmanbane, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolmanbane
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.00212, -7.25928
- SMR number
- LA018-002001-
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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
On very high ground overlooking valley. St. Colman Ban may have founded an early church here. He is commemorated on the 19th October (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 244-5). A late medieval church (LA018-002-) with divided nave and chancel built with rough limestone blocks randomly coursed. All visible headstones post date 1700 AD. Roughly D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 35m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church in centre of graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 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.