What is recorded here

St. Columb's burial ground and thorn mark an early Christian site in Gortfad, County Antrim, where a church may have stood before the graveyard formed. The uncertain date and questioning church label leave the place half-hidden, suggesting worship and death intertwined long before written records. A thorn growing beside buried bodies fits that border between life and forgetting.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH? & GRAVEYARD: ST. COLUMB'S BURIAL GROUND & ST. COLUMB'S THORN. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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