Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/04/007

Address :
Graveyard at Ballykeel Low Road Islandmagee Larne Co Antrim

Townland:
Ballykeel

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Graveyard

Former Use
Graveyard

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
84/11

IG Ref:
J4706 9546

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Owner Category

Miscellaneous

Exterior Description And Setting

A small graveyard in a rural location, entered by a pair of stone gate piers mounted with an iron gate. The boundary is banked up and the enclosure contains the ruins of an ancient church of rectangular plan, built of rubble stone but without any surviving architectural features. There are a number of headstones in the graveyard and within the area of the church itself but none are of special historic or architectural interest. It stands in open countryside alongside a main road.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Appears on OS map of 1831. The ruins are of the church of St John Ransevyn which was abandoned in the 16th century for the new church of St John at Ballyharry built c 1600. The church ruin is an ancient monument, SMR: ANT47:3. References - Primary 1. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 10: Parishes of County Antrim III (Belfast, 1991), pp 45 and 46. 2. OS Map 1831, Co Antrim 47. Secondary 1. D. A. Chart, ed, A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1940), p 39.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A site of some historic interest containing the ruins of an ancient church but not displaying enough architectural features to merit listing.

General Comments

Date of Survey

20 September 1997