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Church in Disert

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Church in Disert
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Located in an ecclesiastical enclosure (DG084-001001-). McDevitt (1865) records ‘a pretty dell, called Dysert, where are the grass-grown remains of an ancient chapel, and a well of St. Columcille [DG084-001004-]’, but there are now no visible remains of a church within the enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG084-001013

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  • louise price, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
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  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Donegal Daily (publisher); individual photographer not stated, www.donegaldaily.com
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