What is recorded here

Knockbarron holds a vine-leaf hood moulding buried beneath a tomb, waiting for hands brave enough to uncover what St. Barrind's sixth-century foundation still hides. The church stands between a river and an esker ridge, its sandstone walls leaning slightly as if listening to water memory rather than resisting time. A man might have knelt there at dawn, not in prayer but in recognition, certain the leaf was not decoration but a message directed at him alone.

Early Christian foundation founded by St. Barrind in the sixth century (Purser 1918, 74-7). Located on low-lying land with river to the S, esker ridge to the N and E with motte (OF036-028004-) to the NW. Long rectangular church (OF036-028001-) built of roughly coursed sandstone blocks with base batter evident at W end of N wall only. Late medieval architectural fragment of a limestone window of fifteenth or sixteenth century date. Located to the E of the church lying on the ground beneath a table top tomb there is a single hood moulding terminal decorated with a vine leaf carved in relief. There are several fragments of window mouldings and other architectural pieces lying outside the E end of the church. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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