placenamesAghanunshin
Achadh an Uinsinn
The architectural inventory records a seventeenth-century church, later alterations and a move to Cornagill.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh an Uinsinn · Irish · main form
- Aghanunshin · English · main form
Place & story
The surviving hall church
Kiltoy’s former Church of Ireland church retains the walls of a small three-bay hall. The National Inventory dates it approximately to 1630, with alterations around 1750. Segmental-headed openings remain in the walls, and traces of slate hanging survive on the western gable. Its slate roof has collapsed. [2]
A new place of worship and an older graveyard
The inventory records that the church remained in use until the mid-nineteenth century, when a chapel of ease was built a short distance east at Cornagill. The graveyard continued to accumulate memorials: the survey records stones ranging from 1756 to 2003. Its earliest legible marker commemorates the Rev. John Robertson. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Coordinates
- 54.97847, -7.67733
- Mapped area
- 16.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 771 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghanunshin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kiltoy Church of Ireland Church, Aghanunshin, NIAH 40905327 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-14. How this page was prepared.