Church, Creevymore, Co. Sligo

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Church, Creevymore, Co. Sligo

In the townland of Creevymore, in County Sligo, the remains of a church sit within the landscape, recorded and classified but not yet fully described in any publicly available form.

It is, in a sense, a place that official record-keeping acknowledges but has not yet caught up with, which gives it a particular kind of obscurity: not forgotten exactly, but not yet fully found either.

Creevymore is a small rural townland in Sligo, a county with a long and layered ecclesiastical history stretching from early medieval foundations through to post-Reformation decay. Church ruins of this kind, scattered across Irish townlands, often mark the site of early Christian worship, sometimes pre-dating the Norman period entirely. They may survive as roofless shells, low grass-covered walls, or little more than a raised rectangular platform in a field, occasionally accompanied by a burial ground that remained in use long after the building itself fell out of use. Without more specific detail, the precise character of this particular site remains difficult to pin down.

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