Underexposed – an Irish Photoblog
Kill old church, graveyard, famine graveyard, and Penal Mass station, Dunfanaghy, Donegal
Clondahorky Old Church, Kill,Dunfanaghy
Stone inscription in the church
Kill graveyard gate
Kill graveyard
Iron Crosses in kill famine grave yard marks graves of drowned … a few stones for the famine victims belies the number of interred… hundreds possibly in the thousands. More info here
https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/40901521/kill-dunfanaghy-county-donegal
The Fiddle Stone, Ballinascreen Old Church
The old church and graveyard at Ballinascreen (Baile na Scrine), Moneyconey, Co Derry, Northern Ireland
Open vault in the graveyard at Ballinascreen
The broken holed stone in the church with a fern growing through it
Kilcar old church and graveyard, Co Donegal, Ireland
The bullaun stone that sits in the ruin of Kilcar old church
Two of the numerous grave slabs that lie in the graveyard
The Cairn and Holy Well in a field next to Kilcar old church
The holy well flows into a bullaun stone or rock-basin
Fuerty Abbey and Ancient Graveyard, Co Roscommon, Ireland
Old Kiltartan Graveyard, Gort, Co Galway, Ireland
Three Crosses, old graveyard, Bishop’s Quarter, the Burren, Co Clare, Ireland
Cross and shadow, old Kiltartan graveyard, Gort, Co Galway, Ireland
Cross, old Kiltartan graveyard, Gort, Co Galway, Ireland
Kinlough Old Graveyard, Co Leitrim, Ireland
Kinlough Old Church ruin
Ardclinis Old Church and Graveyard with Fairy Tree
Ardclinis Old Church, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
Ardclinis Fairy Tree (Rag Tree)
Rags are tied to trees in the belief that as the cloth rots an ailment or problem will disappear or a wish will be forfilled.
Children’s toys and other personal things are also to be found on the tree.
3 Crosses attached to exterior wall
Bodoney (Badoney) Church and Graveyard, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Old Conwal Graveyard, Co Donegal, Ireland
Decorated pillar
Crude figure on stone
Celtic cross and knot work on grave slab
Cross on large grave slab
St Deirbhile’s Church, Belmullet, Co Mayo, Ireland
Some of the crosses in St Deirbhile’s Graveyard
St. Brigid’s Well, Faughart, Co Louth, Ireland
St. Brigid’s Well
Rag Tree at St Brigid’s Well
By the shrine
The ruins of a medieval church
The grave of Edward Bruce, King of Ireland who was defeated and killed in the battle of Faughart 14th October 1318. (brother of Robert Bruce King of Scotland)
Some of the interesting headstones
Old Dunfierth church and graveyard, Co Kildare, Ireland
Doorway of Dunfierth church which dates to 1500
South wall window
Crucifixion carving on back of vault
Carving on side of vault
Effigy of Knight in vault
Graveyard at Portglenone forest, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
The steps at Magherakeel graveyard near the ruins of St. Caireall’s Church
Celtic Cross Headstones at Magherakeel Graveyard
Magherakeel graveyard, Killeter, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland