What is recorded here
Finkiltagh holds a church and graveyard whose age remains uncertain, marking a place where people gathered to pray and buried their dead before modern records arrived. The stones may have stood through famine, feast and forgotten feuds, while living residents treated the ground as familiar rather than sacred. Uncertainty does not diminish the site; it preserves the mystery of ordinary devotion repeated across generations.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH & GRAVEYARD. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. 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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