When the Donegal Archaeological Survey team visited the site, however, they found no trace of the graveyard Colhoun had recorded. What they did discover was rather more subtle; an oval shaped piece of raised ground in the second field to the west, containing what appeared to be a rectangular foundation.

The foundation measured approximately 3.9 metres north to south and 5.3 metres east to west, defined by very slightly raised walls with a hollow interior. The structure was so indistinct and weathered that the survey team couldn’t even accurately measure the width of the walls. Whether this faint outline represents the remains of an ancient dwelling, a small religious structure, or something else entirely remains unclear.

The site’s location on this windswept terrain overlooking Tremone Bay suggests it held some significance for those who built here, though time and the elements have nearly erased all evidence of their presence. The discrepancy between Colhoun’s original recording of a graveyard and what survives today raises intriguing questions about what else might have been lost to the landscape over the decades, leaving only these ghostly foundations as testament to Kilpatrick’s forgotten past.