What is recorded here

Mortons and Malachias, two names for one buried place. Cemetery and church in County Down, recorded uncertain but real beneath the grass. St Malachias gave the site its name; Mortons may have tended it later. People died there across centuries, and the earth kept them without pride.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Cemetery associated with Early Medieval/Medieval/Post-Medieval Church of St Malachias. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Cemetery associated with an Early Medieval church; likely 7th to 11th century. It is significant as a religious and burial site linked to St Malachias, an important figure in early Irish Christianity.

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