Ecclesiastical enclosure in Ballynahown — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No visible enclosure exists, yet the circular graveyard wall and a fading eastern bank hint that a larger sacred boundary once surrounded the poor church. The sandstone curve and distant earth ridge suggest a lost circle nearly seventy-five metres across, perhaps marking the edge of an earlier religious enclosure. People may have walked that vanished line for generations before the wall rose inside it, carrying the shape of the place into stone.

No surface remains visible of any enclosure around church and graveyard, circular shape of graveyard wall suggests that this wall may repsect the line of an earlier enclosure. Situated on W facing slope of rising ground in upland area with nearby stream 45m to the E of the graveyard (LA002-013002-). Poorly preserved church (LA002-013001-) located in the centre of a D-shaped graveyard defined by a sandstone wall. Low earth and stone bank (Top Wth 2.5m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) with traces of a outer fosse visible at E only; this bank runs out from the base of the graveyard wall at SE and forms a circular boundary to the E of the upstanding graveyard wall. It just peters out to the NE of the graveyard with no surface remains visible to the N or W of the graveyard. This bank appears to be the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary or may be remains of a small ecclesiastical enclosure (LA002-013004-). This bank is located at a distance of 28m from the outer face of the graveyard wall at E. Curving section of graveyard wall to N of church may be on line of earlier enclosure (approx. diam. 75m). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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