Townland of Carrowhugh

Area: 633 acres
Irish Name: Ceathrú Aodha Meaning: A quarterland of Hugh
Spelling Variations: none

Kilblaney Burial Ground (Medieval ?)
About 1.75 miles N.E. of Greencastle beside shore road to Shrove, at Port Blaney near Life-boat House. Rough pasture above shore edge. Is beyond mouth of Lough Foyle. Unrestricted sea and land views. The graveyard is said to have been used for both Catholic and Protestant burials. The bodies of sailors have been interred here. The partly enclosed burial ground at the edge of a bank above the sea-shore is much overgrown and I found it impossible to get dimensions, although Father Walter Hegarty has measurements of this and also of the remains of the old church now overgrown. Small erect rough stones mark graves, and there is at least one slab lying flat. There is an interesting small cross, resembling a termon cross, set in a beautifully fitting socket in a slab about 5 ins. thick which is on top of the wall beside an opening in the S.W. The space at the back of the socket is filled with loose stone. The cross is 2ft. 8 ins, high and 2 ft. wide across the arms. St. Blain, who flourished in the 6th century, may be associated with this church, as the name might suggest.

(Taken from The Heritage of Inishowen by Mabel R. Colhoun)

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