Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Churchtown (gartan Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown (gartan Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 55.01574, -7.90878
- SMR number
- DG044-017007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The early ecclesiastical site at Gartan is the reputed birthplace of Colmcille, the greatest of the Donegal saints (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 385). It presently consists of a complex of sites in and around a graveyard (DG044-017008-) enclosed by a modern stone wall. Within the graveyard are a number of grave markers and the remains of a structure known as the 'Abbey' (DG044-017001-). Just SW of the graveyard is St. Columbkilles Chapel (DG044-017005-). This is probably the chapel described in 1622 as being in repair and having a thatched roof (Royal Commission, 217).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.