What is recorded here

St Patrick’s Hill in Ardrass Lower still holds a medieval church, possible graveyard and early enclosure, while a saint’s bed and holy well wait nearby under pasture and farmyard traffic. The cluster suggests a monastic kitchen, prayer room and burial ground rather than a lone shrine. People may have walked that flat eastern foot at dawn, carrying water from the well or laying out the dead inside the old ring. Patrick’s name repeats across the landscape as if the hill itself learned to teach through repetition.

On level mixed pasture and tillage at the E foot of St. Patrick's Hill (OD 308') and partially overlain at N by a farmyard. There is a 'saint's bed' (KD011-036----) c. 250m to the W and a holy well (KD014-024----) c. 300m to the WNW, both dedicated to St Patrick. The remains comprise a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD011-015002-), which contains a possible graveyard (KD011-015003-) and 'St Patrick's Church', a fine medieval building (KD011-015001-). This closely associated group of monuments, most named for St Patrick, suggests that there may have been an early monastic site here. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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