Site of Church & Burial Ground — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kinahan recorded the lost church on marshy slopes above the River Swilly before the railway cut through Donegal memory. The line probably destroyed the burial ground and building, erasing a place where people once prayed, mourned and belonged. What remains is absence given shape: a route laid over lives, and a county learning to remember through what it stopped seeing.

Although not marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map the 2nd and 3rd editions show this as the site of a church and burial ground (DG053-028001-). No trace of it now survives and it was probably destroyed by the building of the railway line (Kinahan 1885-86, 426). Situated on the lower marshy slopes of a hill rising from the River Swilly. 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. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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