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# Monastery Site
This early Christian ecclesiastical site in Fermanagh comprises a sixth-century monastery with a multiperiod church building, surrounding graveyard, and two stone cross shafts with their bases. The site represents continuous religious use from its foundation through the medieval period and beyond. The monastery would have served as a centre of Christian worship, learning and community life typical of early monasteries in the wider Irish cultural sphere during the early medieval period.
The site lies on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a geological formation of the Visean period composed chiefly of limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate. This substantial sedimentary geology provided both building stone for the monastic structures and graveyard and the stable ground necessary for long-term settlement and burial use.
The survival of the stone cross fragments demonstrates the site's status and the significance of its religious community. The multiperiod character of the church building indicates substantial continuity of Christian practice across centuries. The site is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 11242 in recognition of its archaeological and heritage importance as an early Christian foundation.
C6th monastery, multiperiod church site , graveyard, two-cross shafts & bases is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11242. View the official record →
# Monastery Site This early Christian ecclesiastical site in Fermanagh comprises a sixth-century monastery with a multiperiod church building, surrounding graveyard, and two stone cross shafts with their bases. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11242.
C6th monastery, multiperiod church site , graveyard, two-cross shafts & bases dates from the e.christ. period, and is classified as a ecclesiastical site. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
C6th monastery, multiperiod church site , graveyard, two-cross shafts & bases is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 11242.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rath (1.1 km), Castle (1.9 km), Crom castle, crom old castle. castle & garden (2.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of C6th monastery, multiperiod church site , graveyard, two-cross shafts & bases's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
C6th monastery, multiperiod church site , graveyard, two-cross shafts & bases stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.