Name: | Movilla (Magh-bile) | CISP No: | MVILE |
Place: | Movilla (Magh-bile) | Grid Ref: | J 5000 7400 (IR) |
Parish: | Lower Ards | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Down (An Dún) , Ireland | Saint(s): | none |
Site Type: | ecclesiastical |
Petrie/1878, 71, provides a description and discussion of Moville Abbey.
Hamlin/2001, 56: `Movilla was one of Ulster's most important ecclesiastical sites, head church of the Dál Fiatach kings and clearly a large, complex settlement'.