The Larganakilla Graveyard, clearly marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch maps, has seemingly vanished without a trace. Despite its documented existence on these historical maps, modern surveys have been unable to locate any physical remnants of what was once presumably a burial ground serving the local community.

This enigmatic site joins a collection of lost graveyards scattered across County Donegal, including the burial ground at Gort An Choirce. These forgotten resting places represent fragments of Ireland’s complex religious and social history, where small communities maintained their own burial grounds, often in remote locations. The disappearance of such sites isn’t uncommon; centuries of agricultural use, natural erosion, and changing land practices have obscured or completely erased many historical features from the landscape.

The absence of visible remains at Larganakilla raises intriguing questions about the nature of these rural burial grounds. Were they simple earthen graves without permanent markers that have since been reclaimed by the land? Or did local memory and oral tradition simply fade, taking with them the last knowledge of where ancestors were laid to rest? The Archaeological Survey of County Donegal, compiled in 1983, could only confirm what the maps suggested; that somewhere in these fields, beneath the grass where cattle now graze, lies a piece of Donegal’s past that remains tantalisingly out of reach.