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Culfeightrin Church and Graveyard is an early Christian ecclesiastical site located in the Moyle area of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The site comprises the remains of a church building and its associated burial ground, representing a significant settlement within the early medieval Christian landscape of the north coast. The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 808.
The church sits upon bedrock formed from Dinantian mafic lava and tuff, dating to the Mississippian period. This volcanic geology is characteristic of the north Antrim plateau and would have been a familiar landscape feature to the early Christian community who established and maintained their religious settlement here. The combination of church and graveyard indicates a substantial place of worship and pilgrimage.
Early Christian ecclesiastical sites such as this served multiple functions within their communities, acting as centres of spiritual life, learning, and occasionally craft production. The graveyard itself represents generations of burial practice and reflects the importance of this location as a focal point for the surrounding population. The site contributes to our understanding of Christian settlement patterns and religious practice in early medieval Ulster.
Cuil echtrann, magherintemple, culfeightrin church. culfeightrin church & graveyard is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 808. View the official record →
Culfeightrin Church and Graveyard is an early Christian ecclesiastical site located in the Moyle area of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 808.
Cuil echtrann, magherintemple, culfeightrin church. culfeightrin church & graveyard 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.
Cuil echtrann, magherintemple, culfeightrin church. culfeightrin church & graveyard 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 808.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Court tomb (3.5 km), Carn an truagh, knocklayd. megalithic tomb, possibly passage tomb (4.2 km), Standing stone (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cuil echtrann, magherintemple, culfeightrin church. culfeightrin church & graveyard's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cuil echtrann, magherintemple, culfeightrin church. culfeightrin church & graveyard stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Dinantian, bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.