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MULTIPERIOD CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; ENCLOSURE; CARVED FIGURES: WHITE ISLAND in White Island

MULTIPERIOD CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; ENCLOSURE; CARVED FIGURES: WHITE ISLAND
MULTIPERIOD CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; ENCLOSURE; CARVED FIGURES: WHITE ISLAND in White Island
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White Island in County Fermanagh holds a multiperiod church, graveyard, enclosure and carved figures dating from the early Christian through medieval periods. The stones have stood inside their boundary since people first shaped them, marking death, prayer and ownership on a small island. They remain under state care because continuity itself is the rarity: an unbroken chain of human attention across centuries.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MULTIPERIOD CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; ENCLOSURE; CARVED FIGURES: WHITE ISLAND. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; UNCERTAIN; MED/L.MED. Recorded protection: State Care and Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0