Carndonagh
cairn or mound of the church; Joyce says the second part came simply from the old monument standing in the parish of Donagh
A town on the Inishowen peninsula near Trawbreaga Bay, laid out around a central 'diamond' and dominated by its Romanesque Revival Catholic church. Its great treasure is the Carndonagh stones, five sculpted stones dated to between the 7th and 9th centuries. Joyce records the local saying that snow lingers on Slieve Snaght until the May fair in Carndonagh.
The Carndonagh stones, five carved stones dated to between the 7th and 9th centuries, stand in the town, and ringforts, souterrains, a chambered cairn and standing stones in Ballylosky, Churchland Quarters and Tullanree show older settlement. The Church of Ireland church was built around 1769, the Methodist chapel in 1867 and the Presbyterian church in 1886, while the Catholic church, on the site of a smaller 19th-century chapel, was finished in 1945. The railway station opened in July 1907 and closed in December 1935.
Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Carndonagh ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Carndonagh stones · high cross · under 1 km
- Bocan Stone Circle · stone circle · 8 km
- Carrickabraghy Castle · castle · 10 km
Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.
- Doagh Famine Village · A village of thatched cottages lived in until 1983, telling the Inishowen story from eviction to Republican safe-houses — eccentric, and unforgettable.
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