Carndonagh

History

The town is the site of the Carndonagh stones, a series of five sculpted stones which are dated to between the 7th and 9th centuries. Other evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort, souterrain, chambered cairn and standing stone sites in the townlands of Ballylosky, Churchland Quarters and Tullanree. Carndonagh's Church of Ireland (Anglican) church was built , the Weslyan (Methodist) chapel dates to 1867, the Presbyterian church to 1886, and the Catholic church (built on the site of a smaller 19th-century chapel) was completed in 1945. Carndonagh railway station, which opened in July 1907, was closed in December 1935.

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Oystercatcher

  Haematopus ostralegus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  151
• White Wagtail

  Motacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  132
• Herring Gull

  Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 · Aves
  123
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  123
• Great Cormorant/European Shag

  Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  110
• Green-veined White

  Pieris napi (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  103
• Smallspotted catshark, Small-spotted catshark, Lesser Spotted Dogfish

  Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Elasmobranchii
  101
• Hooded Crow

  Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  101