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EARLY MONASTIC SITE, MULTIPERIOD CHURCH SITE & GRAVEYARD: AGHALURCHER or ST RONAN'S CHURCH in Aghalurcher Glebe

EARLY MONASTIC SITE, MULTIPERIOD CHURCH SITE & GRAVEYARD: AGHALURCHER or ST RONAN'S CHURCH
EARLY MONASTIC SITE, MULTIPERIOD CHURCH SITE & GRAVEYARD: AGHALURCHER or ST RONAN'S CHURCH in Aghalurcher Glebe
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Aghalurcher held an early monastic community before becoming a multiperiod church and graveyard, linking Christian worship to older Irish life in County Fermanagh. St Ronan’s name still belongs to the place, while the land itself preserves layers of prayer, burial and change. The glebe may have felt crowded with memory, its fields marking both sacred obligation and ordinary human loss.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as EARLY MONASTIC SITE, MULTIPERIOD CHURCH SITE & GRAVEYARD: AGHALURCHER or ST RONAN'S CHURCH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; 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 monastic site and multiperiod church with origins in the Early Christian period, later used through the Medieval and Late Medieval periods. The site is significant as a long-standing religious and burial center, reflecting the continuity of Christian worship in the region.

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