Newtownards, United Kingdom
Tullynakill Rd
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This place is full of history and very well tended. A beautiful and special place to be laid to rest.
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A hard place to find. It's up a small lane on a narrow coast road between Comber and Kilinchy. Very peaceful and interesting reading the old headstones.
This is a lovely spot, if a little hard to find. Once you've hit the small layby you have found it, park up & walk down. I would say it's not really wheelchair friendly, big dip down quite a rocky road, and up the other side. The pictures show a lovely site though, great for a walk round. Plus, off to the right, just before the gate is a small path up to a little outcrop, lovely views. Will be back, definitely!
Very old and slightly out of the way ...with a few very unusual graves
Beautiful spot
A tiny but fascinating derelict church with gave stones dating back to the 1700s. Bring your camera or some paper and charcoal to take rubbings from the old grave stones. You can easily pass an hour here looking around. There's car parking space in a small lay-by in front of the church. Not wheelchair accessible.
A little gem of a ruined church that isn't signposted, so you will need to look out for it. It is, though, easily located by the 'D' shaped addition to the road side where you can park. The papal taxation of 1306 lists Nendrum as a parish church, at some point, though, in the Middle Ages parish worship was moved to Tullynakill and the island site of Nendrum abandoned (NIEA, 2005, 2). The site at Nendrum does, certainly, appear to have fallen into misuse and possibly even ruin by the 15th century, so there may well have been some site or transitional site at Tullynakill then or slightly later, but the current structure and historical records appear to date it to later, “Reeves noted in the mid 19th century the ruins of a 17th- century church next to the one then in use in Tullynakill townland (ruin dated 1639 of church ‘on a little hill, opposite to the island’, EA 197). The descriptive name Tullynakill makes its appearance in the 1615 Terrier of church property as well as on the secular Raven maps of c.1625.” (Muhr, 2008, NIPNP). The SMR, though, states that the site became the parish for Nendrum in the 15th century suggesting that there was some sort of site in the 15th or 16th centuries with renovation in the 17th century (SMR, 1992, DOW017:003). Other sources also state that the current ruins probably date to the 1600’s but are situated on the site of a much older church.
Apparently Daft Eddy is buried here
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