What is recorded here
Killylane church and enclosure stand scheduled in County Antrim, preserving an early Christian landscape where worship and boundary became one shape. The uncertain date widens rather than diminishes the place, inviting imagination to fill the silence before written record. A person may have walked that enclosure at dawn, carrying butter or bread, believing the land itself listened.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHURCH & ENCLOSURE. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; UNCERTAIN. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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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