Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Boley Lower, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boley Lower
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.91554, -7.39734
- SMR number
- LA023-025001-
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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 (LA023-025) and ancient burial ground here (Comerford, Rev M. 1883-86, 338). Remains of an undivided nave and chancel built of roughly coursed limestone. Remains of doorway in South wall. No other features visible.
Irregularly shaped graveyard (int. dims. 63m N-S; 43m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with church in centre.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 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.