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MULTIPERIOD CHURCH & GRAVEYARD (E.Christian-Post Med.) in Drummully

MULTIPERIOD CHURCH & GRAVEYARD (E.Christian-Post Med.)

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Drummully holds a church and graveyard where Medieval, Early Christian and post-Medieval lives overlapped, meaning death and worship continued through several changing ages rather than belonging to one clean moment. The stones may have marked a small Christian community before they became a later parish landmark, while the graveyard kept adding bodies long after the first prayers faded. People may have walked past the same grave mounds for centuries, remembering some names and forgetting others, yet the place still keeps their repeated choice to return, pray and bury their dead together.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MULTIPERIOD CHURCH & GRAVEYARD (E.Christian-Post Med.). Recorded period: MED/L.MED; E.CHRIST.; POST-MED. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Early Christian to Post-Medieval multiperiod church and graveyard; significance lies in its long occupational history reflecting religious and burial practices across several centuries in the region.

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