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Kilmacrenan Old Church — Kilmacrennan

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Kilmacrenan Old Church — Kilmacrennan
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Remains of former Church of Ireland church, built c. 1530 and altered c. 1733 and c. 1760, having remains of three-storey tower (on square-plan) to the south-west end, added c. 1760. Now derelict and partially demolished. Roof now collapsed\removed, originally pitched. Lower courses of rubble stone walls surviving to the north-west, south-east and north-east. Evidence of roughcast rendered surviving to tower. Lowest stage of tower converted into burial vault, after c. 1850. Church remains set in sub-rectangular enclosure having rubble stone boundary walls with rubble stone coping over. Gateway to the north-west having a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having flagstone coping over, and with a wrought-iron gate. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly upstanding twentieth-century gravemarkers and some nineteenth-century gravemarkers. Set back from road in the rural countryside to the north-east of Kilmacrenan. Remains of Franciscan friary (see RMP DG045-010002-), founded c. 1540, located to the north-east. Modern signage to north-west inscribed with information concerning site.

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