What is recorded here
Enclosure and church in Tirnascobe, County Armagh, possibly a rath, uncertain period but early Christian context. A graveyard remains inside the boundary, marking burial and worship at one place. The church is gone, yet the enclosure still holds the shape of repeated human return.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH (site of)& GRAVEYARD in ENCLOSURE, possibly a RATH. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN; E.CHRIST.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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