Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Boley Lower, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boley Lower
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templeshankyle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.91566, -7.39727
- SMR number
- LA023-025----
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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
Reference to church and ancient burial ground (LA023-025001-) here (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 338). Situated on a ridge. Remains of a nave and chancel church survive, built of roughly coursed limestone, with a narrow slit ope in E gable and doorway in S wall. No other features visible.
Described by Comerford as 'The ruins of the old church are still to be seen in the present townland of Boley, surrounded by an ancient burial-ground (LA023-025001-). In the old Taxation of the Diocese of Leighlin the Vicarage of Shankyll (old church) is valued at £3 6s. 8d., one of the most highly valued in the list' (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 338).
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Urn burial1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.