What is recorded here

Beneath the Churchland graveyard, workmen broke through into an arched passage around 1860 while carrying stones away for new building. The discovery appeared inside a fifth-century foundation attributed to St. Kieran the elder, where a ruined church, round tower base and medieval earthworks still mark the old religious life. That hidden chamber may have served worship, storage or refuge, yet it vanished back into darkness once the stone hunger ended.

National Monument No. 497, consisting of an irregular shaped graveyard (OF039-003007-) with poorly preserved church (OF039-003005-) with gun turret at SE angle, base of round tower (OF039-003003-) at NW angle, base of high cross (OF039-003002-), cross-slabs, architectural fragments, 19th-century C of I church and medieval earthworks of a deserted medieval settlement enclosing graveyard from S through W to N and low motte (OF039-003----) to SW, all of which is contained within the impressive remains of a bivallate ecclesiastical enclosure (OF039-003001-). Founded by St. Kieran the elder in the fifth century (ITA Survey 1943). Around 1860 workmen came upon an arched passage while removing stones for building purposes (Carrigan 1905, vol 2, 13). This may have been the site of a Man-made underground passage. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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