
What is recorded here
Ardkeen Church stands in County Down as a medieval scheduled site, preserving a graveyard and coffin lids that have watched the land for centuries. The stones mark a place where life, death and memory still overlap, inviting wonder about the people who prayed, buried and remembered there long before modern records.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH & GRAVEYARD & COFFIN LIDS (2): ARDKEEN CHURCH. Recorded period: MEDIEVAL; MED/L.MED. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Medieval church and graveyard with associated coffin lids; significant as a protected religious and burial site from the medieval period.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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