Balteagh Old Graveyard, Drumsurn Road, Ardmore, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49

Balteagh Old Graveyard is a historic burial ground in Ardmore, near Limavady, recorded as a historic monument. It contains the scant ruinous remains of a former church and a well-maintained graveyard with memorials spanning the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

The former church was a rectangular building aligned east to west, constructed between 1600 and 1649. Scant rubble stone walls remain on the east and south sides, standing approximately 800 millimetres high, though the ground level outside is banked up to the top of these walls. Near the west end, a dip in the bank marks the position of a former entrance door. The original walls were built of stones averaging one to one and a half feet in length, irregular in shape and not closely fitted, with much of the surface once covered in plaster. Two windows survived into the later period: a large ornate west window with sandstone artwork (since filled up) and one in the south gable.

The church remained in tolerable repair until November 1777, when a violent storm damaged the roof severely. Repairs were neglected, and the building rapidly fell into disrepair. The roof was eventually removed entirely around 1780 by the Reverend Robert Magee, the rector, who thereafter officiated in the Glebe House on Sundays. Successive clergy used other locations for services, with the exception that each new incumbent officiated in the roofless parish church on the first Sunday after installation, a ceremony deemed necessary to validate his appointment. The replacement church, the present Church of Ireland building, was constructed in 1815.

The graveyard contains memorials of considerable age, some with interesting carved designs. On a rise near the southern corner are older stones, including one with two adjoining semi-circular heads and another with two recesses cut along its top edge. A broken tomb near this location marks the resting place of Pastor James O'Conron, Pastor of Clady in County Donegal in the early 19th century.

The site opposite the modern Balteagh Church of Ireland Church preserves the clear plan of the former church and remains a historically significant burial ground.