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Laraghbryan
53.3818° N, -6.6138° E
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Laraghbryan (Irish: Láithreach Briúin) is the site of an old monastic settlement, cemetery and ruined church, 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) west of Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It is in a civil parish of the same name. It is the site of a graveyard which is in use by the Roman Catholic Parish of Maynooth. The ruined church consists of a nave and chancel with a tower attached, most of the ruined structure was part of a church built in Norman times, however this church was built on the site of a previous ecclesiastical settlement. In 1770 when the first Duke of Leinster restored Saint Mary's Church of Ireland in Maynooth, the wooden East Window was removed from Laraghbryan and installed in Saint Mary's, where it is today.
Historical Timeline
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Norman church construction
Norman period
Burial of Sir William Talbot
1634
Wooden East Window relocated
1770
Predominant nineteenth-century burials
19th century
Rev Clotworthy Augustine McCormick death
1807
Maynooth College Cemetery opens
1817
Increased twentieth-century use
20th century
Burial of Domhnall Ua Buachalla
1963
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