What is recorded here
Annaghilla in County Tyrone, Ireland, is an Early medieval settlement-cemetery where daily life and death shared one place. People may have farmed, argued, loved and buried their dead within the same soil, removing the boundary between the living and the remembered. The site still belongs to that lost world, waiting for patience rather than force.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Early medieval 'settlement-cemetery'. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Early medieval settlement-cemetery; 5th to 11th century AD. It represents a rare surviving example of a combined domestic and funerary site, offering insights into early Irish monastic or rural life and burial practices in Northern Ireland.
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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