The site underwent significant tidying around 1968, when a grassy rectangular mound extending from the church's south wall was transformed into a stone cairn. This rectangular structure, with its flat top paved with grave slabs, now serves as a repository for the graveyard's remarkable collection of carved stones. Among these...
Ritual site – holy well, Craigmaddyroe Far, Co. Donegal
One of these, known as Tobar Breallagh, likely takes its name from St. Baothallach, whose feast day falls on 5 October. First documented by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936, both wells appear on Ordnance Survey maps dating back to 1837, marking their long-standing significance to the local community. The well sits...
Ritual site – holy well, Craigmaddyroe Far, Co. Donegal
Positioned on opposite sides of the road, these sacred springs were documented by the scholar Ó Muirgheasa in 1936, who noted their significance to the area's religious landscape. The well on the southern side of the road, known as Tobar Breallagh, likely took its name from St. Baothallach, whose feast...
Historic town, Killybegs, Co. Donegal
The town's strategic importance as a seaport emerged during the later medieval period when it belonged to the bishops of Raphoe, who built a castle overlooking the harbour in the fourteenth century. By the end of the sixteenth century, a small fishing village had developed here, but Killybegs truly came...
Historic town, Lifford, Co. Donegal
This strategic riverside location, combined with the area's notably fertile agricultural land, made it an obvious choice for settlement long before the Ulster Plantation. The O'Donnells recognised its importance in the fifteenth century when they built a castle here, though technically just across the border in what's now County Tyrone....