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Architectural feature

Churchland Quarters, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Architectural feature, Churchland Quarters, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Churchland Quarters
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
55.24988, -7.27288
SMR number
DG011-035002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The Carndonagh complex (National Monument number 271) is the site of one of the main early ecclesiastical centres in Donegal. It consists of a modern graveyard (DG011-035007-) surrounding the 18th century Church of Ireland church. The W entrance of the church consists of a reused 15th-century door with pointed head (DG011-035002-). The jambs are stop-chamfered with a central right-angled groove, suggestive of two orders. Each of the tapering stops of the chamfered hood-mould terminates in a small moulded band, now defaced, from which a double vine leaf and single vine bunch enrichment springs. The door has been heightened by the insertion, in the jambs, of two dressed blocks below the hood-mould stops, and two others below the chamfer stops. To the S of this doorway and lying against the church wall is a small carved stone (DG011-035003-). On the face of this is a central wheeled cross, three or four figures on the left and interlacing on the right. It is, presumably, a lintel from an earlier church (DG011-035001-).

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/revision: 20 August 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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