County: Down Site name: INCH ABBEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: N.F.Brannon, DoE
Site type: Religious house - Cistercian monks
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 747619m, N 845502m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.336833, -5.729909
An area at the E (uphill) end of the parish graveyard extension was excavated and seven inhumation burials were uncovered, probably dating from the Early Christian period and in a very poor state of preservation. They were cut by a medieval ditch, running N-S, into which a dry-stone wall had been inserted. This ditch was probably a Cistercian division of the precinct. Finds included souterrain ware and medieval pottery. There were also clear signs of lazy beds, coincidentally aligned with the burials.
