What is recorded here

Kilrean Upper holds a holy well beside a graveyard where a V-shaped stone wall still cuts through grass. The marshy ground keeps water close, suggesting people long ago believed clarity or life force rose through that rock. A carved basin on a nearby boulder invites touch, measurement and repetition. Together the marks form a small ritual landscape rather than a random collection of stones.

A modern graveyard wall possibly built on traces of an older enclosure. Within the graveyard (DG074-009008-) is Kilrean church (DG074-009001-). In a field SW of the graveyard is a grassed-over V-shaped stone-walled structure (DG074-009005-), 8.5m x 6.5m with an open end to the N. The wall is .5m wide. SE of the graveyard is a holy well (DG074-009003-) and to the E of the enclosure is an erratic boulder or piece of rock outcrop 1.65m x .85m with a carved rock-basin (DG074-009002-) .36m in diameter and 0.14m in depth. The site is located on generally rocky marshy land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 03 November 2011

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