
What is recorded here
Magheralin holds a medieval parish church site and a seventeenth-century church with a graveyard, proving continuous worship at one place. The older building vanished, but the grounds preserved the parish identity through later stone and buried bodies. People still walk beside graves laid down centuries ago, linking present life to medieval faith and seventeenth-century change.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MEDIEVAL PARISH CHURCH (site of) & C17TH CHURCH & GRAVEYARD: LAN. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN; MEDIEVAL; POST-MED. Recorded protection: Listed. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Medieval parish church site with a 17th-century church and graveyard; dates from the medieval period through to the post-medieval era. Its significance lies in its long ecclesiastical use and as a protected historical site reflecting religious and community history in the region.
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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