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Grace O'Malley stone plaque

Cloughmore, Ireland

Kildownet Cemetery the name Kildownet derives from Damhnait or Daynet, Dympna a seventh century Irish Saint. Tradition says that Dympna sought shelter here while fleeing from pursuers and that she built a church Cill on the site hence the name Kildownet. A church existed on this site in the sixteent

h century. It was probably built by Grace O'Malley Granuaile to facilitate worshippers from her nearby castle. The present ruin may be that of a later church built in the 1700s when a Fr. McManus mini

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