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.
