What is recorded here

Killeen Cormac may be the Kil-Fine mentioned in the Lives of St. Patrick, a claim first advanced in 1860. Geophysical surveys have since revealed a trivallate monastic enclosure stretching two hundred and five metres across the fields, wrapping the burial ground and church site in three faint rings. The earth still holds the shape of that old boundary, waiting for footsteps to remember what the grass has forgotten.

In 1860 it was suggested that Killeen Cormac may be no other than the Kil-Fine, or Ecclesia Fine of the various Lives of St. Patrick, and the third church the foundation of which is referred to Palladius (Shearman 1864-6, 60) . Recent geophysical survey carried out in the fields surrounding Killeencormac revealed traces of a trivallate monastic enclosure (max. diam. 205m) surrounding the burial ground (KD032-044----) and church site (KD032-044019-) which occupies the centre of a much more extensive early Christian monastic site (Greene 2013, 26-47). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 August 2019

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