Archaeological evidence suggests this site has been sacred ground since at least the early 17th century, when an earlier parish church and graveyard occupied this spot. The oldest surviving gravestone dates to around 1620, offering tangible proof of the community that worshipped here four centuries ago. The 1654 Civil Survey...
Graveslab, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Archaeological evidence suggests this site has been a place of worship since at least the 17th century, when an earlier parish church occupied the spot. The original church, catalogued as DG053-043001 in archaeological records, came with its own graveyard that still contains remarkable examples of early modern burial markers. The...
Graveslab, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
The current church was constructed where a 17th century parish church once stood, surrounded by its original graveyard that still serves the community today. Archaeological records from 1996 note that the earliest documented gravestone dates to around 1620, though its exact location within the graveyard has proven elusive to modern...
Church, Kiltooris, Co. Donegal
This modest structure, measuring roughly 8.1 metres by 4 metres internally, once served as a chapel of ease to the parish church on nearby Inishkeel island. By 1622, the island church had become so difficult to reach that local authorities decided to hold parish services here instead, a practical solution...
Church, Clonbeg Glebe, Co. Donegal
The building, measuring just over 12 metres long by 4 metres wide internally, was likely constructed as a chapel of ease to serve the local community around Clondahorky. Though historian Bigger mistakenly identified it in 1909 as the site of a Third Order Regular foundation at Ballymacswiney, the church appears...