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Architectural fragment

Corporation, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Architectural fragment, Corporation, 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
Corporation
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.63786, -8.44010
SMR number
DG097-012002-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Fan an Charta Friary, a Franciscan Third Order Regular friary, was founded by MacSwiney Banagh, probably in the second half of the 15th century; the community was driven out soon after the Irish defeat at Kinsale in 1601 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 269).
The surviving church ruins (DG098-031001-) stand beside the shore on the E side of St. John's Point. In 1907, the W gable fell and there was a large gap below the E window (Bigger 1908, 6-7). About 30 years ago the latter was built up and the interior and exterior faces of the S and E walls repointed. The shaft and capital from the E side were removed in 1868, to St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Killybegs and are built into the pier of a garden gate opposite the W gable of the Church.

Nearby in the register

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

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