What is recorded here

Fan an Charta Friary stands beside the shore at St. John's Point, where MacSwiney Banagh probably founded a Franciscan community in the second half of the 15th century before the defeat at Kinsale in 1601 drove them out. The West gable collapsed in 1907, leaving a raw wound beside the East window until local hands rebuilt the gap and repointed the walls decades later. A shaft and capital removed in 1868 now support a garden gate in Killybegs, carrying a fragment of the friary into an ordinary doorway where people still pass through its stone.

Fan an Charta Friary, a Franciscan Third Order Regular friary, was founded by MacSwiney Banagh, probably in the second half of the 15th century; the community was driven out soon after the Irish defeat at Kinsale in 1601 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 269). The surviving church ruins (DG098-031001-) stand beside the shore on the E side of St. John's Point. In 1907, the W gable fell and there was a large gap below the E window (Bigger 1908, 6-7). About 30 years ago the latter was built up and the interior and exterior faces of the S and E walls repointed. The shaft and capital from the E side were removed in 1868, to St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Killybegs and are built into the pier of a garden gate opposite the W gable of the Church.

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