Situated in the hills of Slieveardagh is Fennor Cemetery which contains the ruins of a late medieval Catholic Church and also an early 19th century Board of First Fruits Protestant edifice. There is plenty to indicate a settlement in the surrounding area from at least the late 13th century. The church is first mentioned in Papal Taxation documents from 1291 and in 1302 John de Fresingfeld got royal permission to hold a weekly fair at Fennor. Near the two churches are the remains of a castle and there is also further evidence of three houses depicted on the mid-17th century Down Survey map which may have been the last remnants of that late medieval settlement.
The earlier church appears to have a two storey house at the west end of the nave that would have served as a residence for the priest. The church would have been taken over post the Reformation and the Civil Survey of 1654-6 lists Pierce Butler as the proprietor and goes on to mention that the church had four acres of glebeland with a cabin, and also a garden belonging to the vicar. The later Board of First Fruits church was built in 1815 upon the standard plan of a three bay nave and a three-stage west tower. The church was only in use for a little over 60 years and was dismantled in 1878. The graveyard surrounding it contains burials mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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