Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Camcloon (upperwoods By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camcloon (upperwoods By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- LA023-047001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated church within townland that Carrigan states was 'In Camclone (the crooked or curved meadow) there was a church in the earliest times. There has been no trace of this church in living memory, but its site is still known, in Camclone, in a field called 'Bunny Hill'. The 'Bunny Hill' is now all under tillage and the graveyard destroyed; but formerly, during the trenching of the potatoes or wheat growing here, human bones were invariably thrown up. James Peters of Camclone (1813-1900) says it was a 'churchyard' was on the 'Bunny Hill' (Carrigan 1905, vol 2, 176-7).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007