placenamesSkirk
Scadharc
An architectural account distinguishes the later church from older remains immediately south of it.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Scadharc · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Skirk · English · main form
Place & story
Two buildings on the hill
The Irish Aesthete’s September 2021 account describes two neighbouring church ruins at Skirk. Immediately south of the later building stand the remains of an older church, described as late medieval, with its east gable and part of one wall surviving. The writer noted a blocked entrance and suggested that the older structure had been used as a mausoleum. That interpretation remains tentative; the account distinguishes two buildings rather than treating all the surviving masonry as one church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Clandonagh
- Coordinates
- 52.91200, -7.65786
- Mapped area
- 14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1458 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Skirk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Two in One, 15 September 2021 · The Irish Aesthete
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.