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Ritual site - holy well

Clonca, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Clonca, 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
Clonca
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.26747, -7.17615
SMR number
DG012-002008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This early ecclesiastical site consists of a sub-rectangular modern graveyard (DG012-002011-) enclosing Clonca Old Church (DG012-002001-). The surviving rectangular gabled church is a seventeenth century building incorporating earlier fragments. It was built post 1622 and continued in use until 1827 (Leslie 1937, 155; Bonner 1972, 70, 93). The remains are vested in the Office of Public Works and are a National Monument (No. 25). Inside the church in the SW corner is a small portable bullaun stone (DG012-002004-). At the NE end of the church fixed to the wall are two grave slabs (DG012-002005-; DG012-002012-). In the field W of the graveyard is the stem and part of one arm of a restored, decorated, stone cross (DG012-002007-) carved from a single slab. In the NW corner of the field across the road to the S is a holy well (M. R. Colhoun). To the W of the adjoining road is a field in which a small cross-slab (DG012-002009-) was found.

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.

Compiled by Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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