What is recorded here

Church Island in Intake holds a multi-period church, graveyard and bullaun, preserving layered faith from the early Christian through post-medieval eras. The small island setting suggests worship continued alongside daily life, with burial and water ritual sharing one protected landscape. Its scheduled status acknowledges that ordinary devotion and memory accumulated there across centuries.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MULTI-PERIOD CHURCH; GRAVEYARD; BULLAUN: CHURCH ISLAND. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; POST-MED; MED/L.MED. Recorded protection: State Care and Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Medieval and post-medieval church and graveyard on an island, with a bullaun stone, indicating continuous religious and burial use from the early Christian period onwards. The site's scheduling for state protection highlights its archaeological and historical importance.

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