Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Aghmacart, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghmacart
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.82053, -7.50978
- SMR number
- LA034-019005-
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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
All visible headstones post date 1700 AD.
A square shaped graveyard (int. dims. 40m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with church of Ireland church (LA034-019004-) in S quadrant of graveyard and Auguistinian Priory (LA034-019003-) in N quadrant. It contains many 19th and 20th century headstones. No memorials pre-date 1700 AD. The majority of memorials are to the E of the Church of Ireland church which would have been in the area to the S of the Augustinian Priory. There are numerous architectural fragments littered around the graveyard and incorporated into the graveyard wall. There are several late medieval limestone dumbell pier bases of the cloister scattered around the graveyard.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.