What is recorded here
Kilmacrenan in County Donegal, Ireland, is an abandoned battlefield, though no human body or written witness remains to prove the claim. The land holds the shape of a battle, not the memory of one, and that absence is the strange part. A place can be wounded before it is understood.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Kilmacrenan Old Churchchurch/chapel, graveyard/cemetery · 213 yd
Colm Cille Old AbbeyArchaeological place · 283 yd
Kilmacrenan FriaryReligious house, Franciscan Third Order Regular · 286 yd
Castle (Site of)Castle, unclassified · 447 yd
BallykeeranForest recreation place · 1078 yd
Former Leitir Fairy Fort near Letter ChurchFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1.2 mi
Silver BirchSilver Birch · 1.9 mi
Gregory HillMountain / peak · 5.3 mi
Stackarnagh Abbey GraveyardGraveyard · 5.5 mi