What is recorded here
Graveyard in Lackan holds a buried church on a gentle slope beside a streaming water, its stone wall marking a rectangular bed of forgotten lives. The northern bank and fosse suggest an older enclosure, perhaps a fortress or boundary that death itself later inherited. To walk there is to stand inside layers of time, where prayer, defence and burial have all collapsed into one quiet ground.
Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope beside a stream. A roughly rectangular area (c. 32m N-S; 57m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall. A church (WI010-011001-) represented by a subrectangular raised area (dims. c. 20m x 15m) is to SW of centre. Part of the N graveyard wall which stands on an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 1m) with an external fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 1m ) may be part of an earlier enclosure (WI010-011002-).
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 14 December 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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