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Not included in the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal' (1983) or the SMR (1987). John O'Donovan, writing in 1835, quoted a folk tradition about a footprint stone associated with Cill Mhic Nenáin, near Kilmacrenan village. He was told by a local story-teller, Manus O'Donnell, that as a boy he had seen a stone beneath the north-east window of the friary church decorated with the 'impression of a foot and other ornaments'. He believed that it was upon this stone that Ó Domhnaill, chief of Tir Conaill, had stood during his inauguration ceremony. According to the same source the stone was apparently broken up, some time later, in a malicious act by a 'Mr. Mac Swine, who having changed his religion, became a violent hater of everything Irish.' (OSL, 53). See E. FitzPatrick, Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland, c. 1100-1600. A Cultural Landscape Study. 2004, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, pp. 18, 111-2, 185-193.
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