What is recorded here

St. Dallan’s church vanished completely from the sandy ground near Ballybur, leaving no stone for later people to touch. The earth swallowed the building and yard until the site became an ordinary field, breaking the visible line between the holy well and the sky. That sudden erasure denied the parish a landmark but forced belief inward, relying on memory instead of marble.

Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map but marked on the 1947 revision as ‘Church (Site of)’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 376), near St Dallan’s Well (KK023-054----), ‘on the sandy rising ground over the well, and in the same field, there were a church and church-yard, both entirely blotted out. (Tradition)’. Commins (1906, 267) also mentions, ‘the site of an old church and a holy well are shown at a short distance over in the fields, in the direction of Ballybur. The ancient name of Burnchurch was Kiltrayn. St. Dallan was patron of the parish’. The outline of the church (overall dims. c. 12m NW-SE; c. 8m NE-SW) is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 13 August 2015). See attached: KK023-052----_01 satellite image (Google Earth, imagery date 13 August 2015) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 August 2021

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