What is recorded here

Ballinascreen Church in Moneyconey, County Derry, has stood through Early Christian, Medieval and Post Medieval centuries, its graveyard holding dead from at least three eras. State Care still marks the site, though no taller structure remains to promise much. What is buried there has watched empires come and go, and the stones may still remember the weight of every prayer spoken above them.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as EARLY CHRISTIAN, MEDIEVAL & POST MEDIEVAL CHURCH & GRAVEYARD: BALLYNASCREEN CHURCH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; POST-MED; 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.

Early Christian, medieval, and post-medieval church and graveyard; dates from the Early Christian period through the post-medieval era. It is significant as a multi-period religious site reflecting long-term Christian settlement and burial practices in the region.

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