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MONASTERY: MONASTERGRILLAGH in Grillagh

MONASTERY: MONASTERGRILLAGH

What is recorded here

MonasterGrillagh stands in County Derry as a monastery whose exact era remains uncertain. The name itself suggests a Christian community once gathered where Grillagh now sits, perhaps building cells, praying at dawn and tending gardens beside the land. That much is certain only in the identity preserved for the site. The rest belongs to imagination, memory and the patience of soil.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MONASTERY: MONASTERGRILLAGH. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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