Still serving the local community today after a recent extension, the cemetery sits on the southeastern slopes of Glendoon Hill, overlooking the River Swilly valley. The site contains the ruins of an old church alongside a holy well, both testaments to centuries of continuous religious significance in this corner of Donegal.

The graveyard underwent significant tidying around 1968, which revealed the true wealth of its carved stone collection. A grassy mound running perpendicular to the church’s south wall was transformed into a rectangular stone cairn, its flat top now paved with historic graveslabs. Among the most intriguing features are six upright slabs bearing cruciform designs, one depicting a human figure, and three plain stones. The cairn itself incorporates three recumbent cross slabs and displays five more loose examples on top, along with twelve other graveslabs ranging from plain trapezoidal stones to a late 19th century marker.

Perhaps the most delicate piece is a small, broken cross slab measuring just 20cm by 31cm, which rests atop the cairn. Despite heavy weathering, you can still make out the carved relief of a wheeled cross with hollow angles on one surface; a classic motif of early Irish Christian art. These carved stones, some potentially dating back over a millennium, transform what might otherwise be an ordinary rural graveyard into an open air museum of medieval stonework, quietly preserving the artistic and spiritual traditions of Donegal’s earliest Christian communities.