Graveyard at Ballykeel, Low Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Graveyard at Ballykeel, Low Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chalk-onyx
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 470 954
- Coordinates
- 54.78546, -5.71479
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The graveyard at Ballykeel is a site of historic interest containing the ruins of an ancient church. It is a small graveyard situated in a rural location, accessed by a pair of stone gate piers topped with an iron gate. The enclosure is bounded by earth banks and contains the remains of a rectangular church constructed from rubble stone. No significant architectural features survive. Numerous headstones are present throughout the graveyard, including within the church ruins, but these do not possess exceptional historical or architectural merit. The graveyard is located in open countryside beside a main road.
The site is depicted on an Ordnance Survey map dating to 1831. The ruins represent the remains of St John Ransevyn church, which was abandoned in the 16th century, replaced by the new church of St John at Ballyharry, built around 1600. The church ruin is recognized as an ancient monument (SMR: ANT47:3). The graveyard is a former and current graveyard. Construction likely occurred before 1600.
Local climate
Graveyard at Ballykeel, Low Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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