Memorials and graveyards in County Donegal
The Discover Alone map has 269 memorials and graveyards in County Donegal, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Tullyaughnish Old Church GraveyardGraveyardTullyaughnish Old Church Graveyard holds the buried dead from the church Sir William Stewart built near completion in…
Tory Island Early Church GraveyardGraveyardFive ruined churches once crowded West Town on Tory Island, but only a walled graveyard and a split cross-slab remain…
The Spanish Armada 1588MemorialThe Spanish Armada of 1588 still haunts County Donegal, its ships scattered by storm rather than cannon. Men drowned in…
The Bridge of TearsMemorialThe Bridge of Tears is a stone memorial near Dunfanaghy and Falcarragh, County Donegal, where families bade final…
Stackarnagh Abbey GraveyardGraveyardStackarnagh Abbey Graveyard holds gateposts built from punched church blocks and window fragments carved with a fish, a…
St Anne's Church GraveyardGraveyardSt Anne's Church Graveyard in County Donegal holds the dead beside an 1841 building that incorporates an eighteenth…
Rory GallagherMemorialRory Gallagher, a memorial in County Donegal, marks a life lived and lost beneath the Atlantic sky. The stone stands…
Patrick the PilgrimMemorialPatrick the Pilgrim stands as a memorial in County Donegal, marking a life spent in motion rather than rest. The name…
Lockheed Hudson bomber 1942MemorialA Lockheed Hudson bomber fell in County Donegal in 1942, leaving behind a memorial marked on the open map. The exact…
Lag GraveyardGraveyardLag Graveyard holds a right-angled church wall, a small stone cross and a borrowed hexagonal font beside a modern…
Killymard Old Church GraveyardGraveyardKillymard Old Church stood in ruins when surveyed in 1622, yet it survived long enough to bury locals until 1829. The…
Killaghtee Old Church GraveyardGraveyardKillaghtee Old Church Graveyard holds crosses and forgotten names beside good pasture, while the seashore waits a short…
Kill Old Church GraveyardGraveyardKill Old Church Graveyard holds a ruined church in County Donegal that remained active until 1752, when worship moved…
Kilbarron Old Church GraveyardGraveyardKilbarron Old Church Graveyard holds the ruins of a small fifteenth or sixteenth century church where fire still shows…
John DohertyMemorialJohn Doherty is a memorial in County Donegal, but no further detail survives to identify the person or event it marks.…
Inishkeel Graveyard near GlentiesGraveyardInishkeel Graveyard near Glenties sits on a vanished church marked only on old maps, its memory buried beneath a modern…
Glencolmcille Old GraveyardGraveyardBeneath the modern church at Glencolmcille Old Graveyard lies a drystone chamber system with rooms extending east and…
Giant's GraveArchaeological placeHalf a mile west of the main road, a field holds no grave at all. The surveyors marked a spread of boulders in 1846 and…
Four Masters MemorialMemorialFour Masters Memorial stands in County Donegal, marking the lives of four teachers who vanished without explanation.…
Finner Old GraveyardGraveyardFinner Old Graveyard holds a broken church where ivy strangles rubble walls and brick fragments from two different…
Eskaheen GraveyardGraveyardEskaheen Graveyard stands on high Donegal ground, still receiving the dead beside the broken chest of an early church…
Donegal Friary GraveyardGraveyardDonegal Friary Graveyard buries generations above the ruined chamber where Franciscan Observant friars prayed from 1473…
Disert GraveyardGraveyardDisert Graveyard holds at least thirty-four unnamed stones beside a rock-bound altar where people believed soil could…
Cooly GraveyardGraveyardCooly Graveyard slopes toward Lough Foyle in County Donegal, holding two ruined churches, a Skull House, and a tall…
Cooley CrossMemorialCooley Cross stands as a memorial in County Donegal, marking a life or event now faded from public memory. The cross…
Clonmany Early Church GraveyardGraveyardTwelve centuries of burial surround the ruined church, where a priest named Amerson may have lived beside a vanished…
Carndonagh Early Church GraveyardGraveyardCarndonagh Early Church Graveyard surrounds an 18th century Church of Ireland church believed to occupy an older sacred…
King's GraveArchaeological placeKing's Grave in County Donegal, Ireland. A buried chamber or forgotten tomb beneath the grass. The name suggests a lost…- Unbaptised babies cemeteryCemeteryUnbaptised babies cemetery is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps small bodies lay hidden beneath grass now…
- Tullabegley GraveyardGraveyardTullabegley Graveyard is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the graves hold forgotten Donegal lives, maybe…
- The Paupers' GraveyardGraveyardThe Paupers' Graveyard is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the Paupers' Graveyard holds forgotten people…
- Tetunny GraveyardGraveyardTetunny Graveyard is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps rain still moves through the stones like a living…
- Templemealaghan GraveyardGraveyardTemplemealaghan Graveyard vanished from County Donegal when a landowner demolished its church in the 1840s, erasing…
- Templedouglas CemeteryGraveyardTempledouglas Cemetery is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps rain fills shallow pits while wind strips the…
- Teelin Bay Former GraveyardGraveyardTeelin Bay holds a forgotten graveyard beside a fragmentary church, now hemmed in by factory sheds. Bones surfaced near…
- St Peter'sCemeterySt Peter's is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps stones stand in rows without names, waiting for rain to…
- St. Joseph's Community Hospital and Home GraveyardCemeterySt. Joseph's Community Hospital and Home Graveyard is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps it holds people…
- St. Joseph's CemeteryGraveyardSt. Joseph's Cemetery is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps rain feeds the grass while forgotten people…
- St Johnston Old GraveyardGraveyardSt Johnston Old Graveyard holds a roofless church built in 1622 by Sir John Stewart Kent, who spent one hundred pounds…
- St. Catherine's GraveyardCemeterySt. Catherine's Graveyard is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps rain fills shallow holes before anyone…
- St Catherine's Friary GraveyardGraveyardSt Catherine's Friary Graveyard holds church ruins that MacSwiny Bannagh may have founded for Franciscans, then…
- Shanaghan GraveyardGraveyardShanaghan Graveyard has vanished entirely from the rough grazing east of Shanaghan Lough, leaving behind no stones…
- Raymoghy Old Church GraveyardGraveyardRaymoghy Old Church Graveyard holds the buried remains of a medieval parish that survived Protestant conversion around…
- Our Lady of Lourdes ChurchCemeteryOur Lady of Lourdes Church is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps our lady watched the dead walk home…
- Old Edrim GraveyardCemeteryOld Edrim Graveyard is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps death itself arrived before mapping, carving rows…
- Old Burial GroundGraveyardOld Burial Ground is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps wind still moves through unseen rows while rain…
- Mullach na CroiseGraveyardMullach na Croise is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the dead lie beneath grass that sways like breath…
- Mevagh GraveyardGraveyardMevagh Graveyard holds a ruined medieval church, a tall carved cross, and a cup-marked stone on the eastern edge of…
- Maritime memorialMonumentMaritime memorial stands in County Donegal, a stone marker for the sea's endless hunger. It does not name a single ship…
- Maghery GraveyardGraveyardMaghery Graveyard is a graveyard in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps rain feeds the roots of trees that hold the names…
- Magheragallon Cemetery / Machaire Gathlán GraveyardGraveyardMachaire Gathlán is a graveyard in County Donegal where a small granite church still stands on a mound, its north wall…
- Magheragallon CemeteryGraveyardMagheragallon Cemetery stands in Gweedore, County Donegal, holding the dead of a parish where life still moves fast. It…
- Kiltooris Old GraveyardGraveyardKiltooris Old Graveyard hides beneath briars on a slope above Kiltoorish Lough, marking the lost Ceall that gave the…
- Kiltooris Church GraveyardGraveyardKiltooris Church Graveyard holds modern markers beside a forgotten chapel that eased the brutal trip across water to…
- Kilmacrenan Old GraveyardGraveyardKilmacrenan Old Graveyard holds the old church inside its boundary, marking a place where worship and death shared one…
- Kilmacrenan Friary GraveyardGraveyardKilmacrenan Friary Graveyard holds the broken remains of a church founded after 1537 by Manus O'Donnell for the…
- Killydonnell Friary GraveyardGraveyardKillydonnell Friary Graveyard holds the ivy-smothered ruins of a house Calvagh O'Donnell founded in 1471 for the…
- Killybegs GraveyardCemeteryKillybegs Graveyard is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps wind still moves through the grass at Killybegs…
- Kilkieran Burial GroundCemeteryKilkieran Burial Ground is a cemetery in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps rain strips the red earth until shallow…
- Kilkenny Old Church GraveyardGraveyardKilkenny Old Church Graveyard holds a small rubble church beside the Gweebarra river inlet, where two low wall sections…