CHURCH (in ruins) & GRAVEYARD: ARDTOLE CHURCH; ST.NICHOLAS' in Ardtole — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ardtole Church and its graveyard have stood in County Down since the medieval period, preserving a sacred boundary where the living once walked beside the dead. Ruins and buried markers still mark the ground, inviting imagination about the prayers, burials and daily rites that filled the place before time stripped away its walls.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH (in ruins) & GRAVEYARD: ARDTOLE CHURCH; ST.NICHOLAS'. Recorded period: MED/L.MED. Recorded protection: State Care. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Medieval church and graveyard; likely 12th to 16th century. Its significance lies in its association with the historical religious landscape of Northern Ireland and the preservation of medieval burial practices.

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