2023:656 - St Mary’s R.C. Church, Maghery - Cemetery Expansion, Armagh
County: Armagh
Site name: St Mary’s R.C. Church, Maghery - Cemetery Expansion
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ARM002:005
Licence number: AE/2023/051
Author: Stephen Gilmore
Author/Organisation Address: NAC Ltd, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY
Site type: Medieval cemetery
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 692510m, N 863482m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.511302, -6.571400
Trenching was carried out from 26 July 2017 to 2 August 2023. Archaeological material was uncovered within four of the seven test trenches. This was in the form of between 40 and 50 potential grave cuts and the remains of a building in Trench 3, which may be the one depicted on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map.