What is recorded here

Fergusson bones and forgotten church ruins share one railed chamber in Donegal. The family took the eastern nine metres, blocked the windows, and turned worship into ownership. The western half vanished or never finished forming, leaving a graveyard shaped like a sentence missing its ending.

Burt Church (DG046-012-): The E 9m of this ruined church was railed off and converted (probably in the early 18th century) into a burial plot for the Fergusson family. There is no visible trace of the W half of the N wall and some footings probably indicate the line of the W gable. The church is 5.6m wide and the S wall is 18.5m long internally. The E gable and N and S walls were brought to uniform height, c. 3m, and capped. The blocked-up, lintelled, doorway in the N wall may not be an original feature but inserted to provide access to the burial plot. The two-light E window, also blocked-up, retains its transom and central mullion; the upper section having been truncated when the gable was reduced in height. The window probably dates to the 16th century. There is a narrow, lintelled window with internal splay at the W end of the S wall. The exterior wall-faces of the church are harled (probably contemporary with its conversion to a burial plot) and much of the interior is covered with memorials.

The official description records surviving remains. Its missing or destroyed wording refers only to one part of this place or to a different nearby feature. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.