Site: Movilla

Name:Movilla (Magh-bile) CISP No:MVILE
Place:Movilla (Magh-bile) Grid Ref:J 5000 7400 (IR)   Map
Parish:Lower Ards Stones:1
County:Down (An Dún) , Ireland Saint(s):none
Site Type:ecclesiastical

Site Notes

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'.

References

Stones