CHURCH & GRAVEYARD, site of MONASTERY with BULLAUN & HOLY WELL: ST. JOHN'S POINT CHURCH in Saint Johns Point — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

St. John's Point Church stands in County Down as the surviving heart of an early Christian monastery, its graveyard holding generations beside a holy well and bullaun stone. The site has remained in state care since its identification, preserving the exact place where prayer, burial and water met. People may have drawn confidence from that clarity, trusting the monastery to mark the boundary between the living and the remembered.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH & GRAVEYARD, site of MONASTERY with BULLAUN & HOLY WELL: ST. JOHN'S POINT CHURCH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: State Care. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Early Christian monastery and church site, likely 6th to 10th century AD, associated with a holy well and bullaun stone. It represents the spread of Christianity in the region and the continuity of sacred landscape use from prehistoric to medieval times.

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