1980-84:0040 - LEGARHILL, Armagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Armagh Site name: LEGARHILL

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: F. Moore, for NMI

Site type: Church

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 686166m, N 845640m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.352147, -6.674512

A church, now vanished, is depicted on the summit of this hill on Bartlett’s c.1600 picture-map of Armagh. Trial excavation revealed slight indications of a rectangular building, in the form of short lengths of diffuse, shallow trenches, although there were no footings, walling or finds.