The rectangular gabled church, built sometime after 1622 and used until 1827, measures about 14 metres by 6 metres internally and remarkably still stands to its original height. The eastern gable is crowned with a small stone cross, whilst the walls, constructed from rubble and split stone with ashlar quoins,...
Church, Clonca, Co. Donegal
The site centres on Clonca Old Church, a 17th-century building that cleverly incorporates fragments from much earlier structures. Built sometime after 1622 and used until 1827, this rectangular gabled church measures 14.15 by 6.15 metres internally and remarkably still stands to its original height. The building technique reveals its complex...
Ritual site – holy well, Clonca, Co. Donegal
The focal point is Clonca Old Church, a rectangular gabled structure that stands within a modern graveyard. Whilst the current building dates from after 1622 and served its congregation until 1827, it incorporates fragments from much earlier churches that once occupied this sacred ground. Now protected as National Monument No....
Penal Mass station, Glenalla, Co. Donegal
First recorded as a dolmen by William Copeland Borlase in 1897, this ancient feature had already gained a rather different reputation amongst the local population by the time the Ordnance Survey Memoirs were compiled in 1834. According to those early surveyors, the stones weren't merely prehistoric remains; they served as...
Penal Mass station, Kiltyfergal, Co. Donegal
When antiquarian William Copeland Borlase catalogued it in 1897, he classified it as a prehistoric monument, and subsequent scholars followed suit, listing it as a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' in the 1960s. By 1904, however, all physical traces of the structure had vanished, leaving only its mark on old maps and...