Local tradition holds that this site hosted an early religious foundation, though today only fragments of the church building remain alongside a still active graveyard. The church itself saw continuous use until the close of the seventeenth century, when it was finally abandoned. What survives of the original structure is...
Graveyard, Eskaheen, Co. Donegal
The site has long been associated with an early ecclesiastical foundation, though the exact origins remain shrouded in the mists of Irish history. Today, visitors can still trace the ghostly outline of a church that once stood here; a fragment of the western gable wall, measuring 4.4 metres in internal...
Graveyard, Ramelton, Co. Donegal
Sir William Stewart, a Scottish planter who arrived during the Plantation of Ulster, commissioned this church around 1620, with construction nearly complete by 1622. The building served as the focal point for Protestant worship in this newly established community for over two centuries, a testament to the dramatic religious and...
Church, Ramelton, Co. Donegal
Commissioned by Sir William Stewart and nearly finished by 1622, this rubble-built structure served the local community for two centuries until a new parish church replaced it in the 1820s. Measuring 22.4 by 7.2 metres internally, the church features distinctive set-back corner buttresses and a rather peculiar architectural mix that...
Bullaun stone, Massreagh, Co. Donegal
These bullaun stones, as they're known in Ireland, are boulders with deliberately carved depressions that have puzzled archaeologists and historians for generations. The larger of the two measures just over a metre in length and features a substantial basin about 29 centimetres across and 17 centimetres deep at one end,...