A bullaun stone, one of those mysterious hollowed rocks that dot the Irish countryside, has found an unusual home right at the entrance to this Victorian era building. The placement was noted in the Sites and Monuments Record by Brian Lacey, who documented this intriguing juxtaposition of old and new....
Church, Ballygorman, Co. Donegal
The simple rectangular structure, measuring roughly 11.7 by 4.25 metres internally, has been built from split-stone rubble and boulders, with only three of its walls still standing against the coastal elements. The eastern gable remains the most intact, reaching nearly its original height and featuring a narrow window with widely...
Church, Eleven Ballyboes, Co. Donegal
The ivy-clad walls of this medieval church have grown so thick over time that they've caused the stonework to bulge outward in places, creating an almost organic fusion of architecture and vegetation. Built from rubble and split stone, the surviving walls still reach an impressive 3.5 metres in height, though...
Graveyard, Sminver (Carrickboy Ed), Co. Donegal
The structure, catalogued as DG107-058 by archaeological surveyors, measures approximately 19 metres by 9 metres internally, with walls about a metre thick. Today, only the lower courses of these walls remain visible, offering little in the way of distinguishable architectural features; the centuries have not been kind to this forgotten...
Church, Sminver (Carrickboy Ed), Co. Donegal
This rubble-built structure, measuring approximately 19 metres by 9 metres internally, now exists only as a series of low stone walls rising about a metre from the ground. The walls themselves, roughly a metre thick, hint at what was once a substantial building, though centuries of neglect have left the...