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CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; TOMB; 2 CROSSES; 3 WELLS; Man-made underground passage; RESIDENCE: BANAGHER OLD CHURCH; ST. O'HEANY'S TOMB in Magheramore

CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; TOMB; 2 CROSSES; 3 WELLS; Man-made underground passage; RESIDENCE: BANAGHER OLD CHURCH; ST. O'HEANY'S TOMB
CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; TOMB; 2 CROSSES; 3 WELLS; Man-made underground passage; RESIDENCE: BANAGHER OLD CHURCH; ST. O'HEANY'S TOMB in Magheramore
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Banagher Old Church in Magheramore preserves a twelfth-century graveyard, St O'Heany's tomb, two crosses and three wells beside a man-made underground passage. The site belongs to the early Christian period and still holds the shape of a lived-in worship place rather than a dead ruin. People may have walked the passage at night, drawn water from the wells and buried their dead beside the tomb, believing the ground itself remembered them.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; TOMB; 2 CROSSES; 3 WELLS; Man-made underground passage; RESIDENCE: BANAGHER OLD CHURCH; ST. O'HEANY'S TOMB. Recorded period: C12TH; C13TH; E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: State Care and Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Early Christian church and graveyard, associated with a medieval tomb and cross-slabs, dating to the 12th–13th centuries. The site is linked to St. O'Heany and includes subterranean features, indicating a significant ecclesiastical and burial complex.

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