Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inauguration stone
Kilmacrenan (Kilmacrenan ED), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacrenan (Kilmacrenan ED)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.03320, -7.77322
- SMR number
- DG045-010005-
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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
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.
Nearby in the register
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.