Overview
forge/smithy — Lenankeel is recorded as forge/smithy in Donegal. Detached two-bay single-storey forge, built c. 1840, with later lean-to shed to north gable, now disused. Pitched tar roof, concrete gable copings, rendered chimneystack to south gable, corrugated roof to lean-to.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached two-bay single-storey forge, built c. 1840, with later lean-to shed to north gable, now disused.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched tar roof, concrete gable copings, rendered chimneystack to south gable, corrugated roof to lean-to.
How it changed
The saved account records: Remnant lime-wash to rendered walls, concrete block walls to lean-to.
What survives
The saved account records: Square-headed window with cast-iron window with top-hung outward opening lights.
Why it mattered
forge/smithy — Lenankeel matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A small disused vernacular forge given significance by the small part it played during the Second World War. Plaque reads ‘Erected in memory of the crew of Wellington Bomber W5653 of No.221 Squadron, R.A.F. who died in a crash on Urris, April 11th 1941, and whose bodies were laid in this forge before transfer to Dunree, and burial in Britain. Erected by WWII Irish Wreckology Group.’ This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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