Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rahin, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahin
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.94627, -7.04298
- SMR number
- LA026-003001-
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Shown on 5 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
A rectangular church (LA026-003-) constructed of roughly coursed limestone. East gable contains evidence of a splayed ope with segmented top. Some cut stone fragments have been used as gravemarkers in NE section of graveyard.
Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 48m N-S; 63m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church in centre of graveyard.
Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the church and graveyard was carried out by Martin Byrne in 2004 under excavation licence no. 04E1558.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.