archaeological around letterkenny ballybofey

One of the few monuments of industrial archaeology in state care in the Republic is the complex of mills at Newmills, three miles west of Letterkenny.

It was operated for centuries by the Gallagher family until it ceased functioning in 1982. Water was siphoned off from the River Swilly for the quarter-of-a-mile long mill-race which fed two separate mills in turn. The upper mill, with much of its machinery still in place, was for flax, used in the making of linen, while the lower mil...

In the Church of Ireland cathedral in this town, there are carved fragments of a 12th century church lintel. In the hall of the church is a large stone bearing a representation of the Arrest of Christ. In the centre is Christ being arrested by two men; St. Peter stands near, sword in hand, to cut off the ear of Malchus, and on the right is a fragmentary Crucifixion. A similar stone (the right-hand fragment of the lintel), with the soldiers casting lots and Christ's tomb, is embedded in the...