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Balibony Church Tower is a medieval ecclesiastical site located near Ballymoney in Northern Ireland. The tower and associated graveyard represent a place of Christian worship that was established in the medieval period and continued in use through subsequent centuries. The church occupies a site underlain by Lough Neagh Clays Group deposits, Oligocene-age clay and lignite formations that characterise the local geology of this region.
The tower survives as the principal physical remnant of the medieval church structure, a common pattern for Irish ecclesiastical sites where stone towers often outlast other building elements. The graveyard surrounding the tower contains evidence of centuries of burial practice, linking the site to the religious and social life of the local community across many generations.
The site is protected under the Historic Environment Division's statutory listing as a scheduled monument, reference number 1336, recognising its significance as a surviving medieval church complex. Such tower churches represent an important category of Irish religious architecture and burial landscape, marking the continuity of settlement and Christian practice in the locality from medieval times onwards.
Old church tower, church of balibony, balibony. medieval & later church, tower & graveyard is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 1336. View the official record →
Balibony Church Tower is a medieval ecclesiastical site located near Ballymoney in Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 1336.
Old church tower, church of balibony, balibony. medieval & later church, tower & graveyard dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a ecclesiastical site. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Old church tower, church of balibony, balibony. medieval & later church, tower & 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 1336.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Platform rath (1.4 km), Mound - barrow? (1.9 km), Mound - round barrow? (2.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Old church tower, church of balibony, balibony. medieval & later church, tower & graveyard'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.
Old church tower, church of balibony, balibony. medieval & later church, tower & graveyard stands on Lough Neagh Clays Group, bedrock that formed in the Oligocene. The rock here is clay and lignite.