
What is recorded here
Dundesert, Kirkfield in County Antrim, Ireland, held a church, graveyard and enclosure from early Christian through medieval and post-medieval times. The site is gone now, but the names and dates suggest a place where people gathered, buried their dead and marked the boundary of their world for centuries. Perhaps children ran between the enclosure posts while elders argued about prayer, and the graveyard filled slowly until the whole field became a memory others could still point to.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH, GRAVEYARD & ENCLOSURE (site of): DUNDESERT, KIRKFIELD. Recorded period: POST-MED; MEDIEVAL; E.CHRIST.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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