Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
An Clochán, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Clochán
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.71328, -8.71035
- SMR number
- DG080-030002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Church of the Spaniard in Faugher was built in 1729 and the story is told that a shipwrecked Spanish sailor was given the Last Rites by the local priest and that he gave the priest some gold coins and asked him to build a church, hence the name Cill an Spainnigh.
Compiled by: Paddy O'Donovan
Date of upload: 1 March 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hermitageunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.