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Kilmacrenan Old Graveyard

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Kilmacrenan Old Graveyard holds the old church inside its boundary, marking a place where worship and death shared one ground. The name suggests a church dedicated to a saint now lost to memory, while the graveyard preserves what the building lost. People may have prayed at dawn and buried their dead at dusk without leaving the same small field. That continuity makes the stones sound less like ruin and more like a household that kept living after its roof disappeared.
Graveyard within which is located 'Kilmacrenan 'old church': see the 'Archaeological Survey of Co. Donegal' (1983), p.338; Site No. 1890.
A medieval ecclesiastical site; significance lies in its association with early Christian activity in northwest Ireland.

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