by ardrua | Mar 19, 2023 | Culdaff, Megalithic Monument,
Bocan Stone Circle Bocan Stone Circle is a stone circle situated near the village of Culdaff in the north of Inishowen, a peninsula on the north coast of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in...
by ardrua | Mar 16, 2023 | Culdaff, Stone Crosses
The Carrowmore Crosses The 2 Carrowmore High Crosses are the most primitive-looking of the 6 located on Inishowen. The Carrowmore West Cross has short arms and no carvings and may date from as early as the 7th century while the East Cross is taller and has carvings of...
by ardrua | Mar 6, 2023 | Carndonagh, Stone Crosses
The Donagh Cross Historians date the Carndonagh high cross to the seventh century, making it one of the oldest of its type in Ireland. This early Christian relic is a red sandstone slab cut out in the shape of a cross, and engraved with a rich, low relief that mixes...
by ardrua | Mar 3, 2023 | Moville, Stone Crosses
Cooley Monastic Site Cooley Graveyard has a view of Lough Foyle, the name can be spelt Cooly or Cooley and translates as ‘The Quarterland of the Woodland’. The old Irish name was ‘Maigh Bhile’ which translate as ‘The Plain of the Ancient (Sacred)Tree’ Evidence shows...
by ardrua | Mar 2, 2023 | Culdaff, Stone Crosses
The 17th century planter’s church ruin at Cloncha is believed to have been built on the foundation ofan earlier church associated with a monastic site founded by St Morialagh in the 6th Century. The monastery was one of the most important foundations in the...
