{"id":252,"date":"2010-09-29T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-11-03T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T13:40:23","slug":"kilmacrennan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/kilmacrennan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilmacrennan Self Catering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3850\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kilmacrennan-self-catering.jpg\" alt=\"Kilmacrennan Self Catering\" title=\"Kilmacrennan Self Catering\" class=\"pinthis\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kilmacrennan-self-catering.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kilmacrennan-self-catering-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kilmacrennan Self Catering<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kilmacrennan Self Catering<\/strong> &#8211; Kilmacrennan is a quiet hillside village which is skirted by the Lurgy River on the road between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/towns\/holiday-cottage-dunfanaghy.php\" title=\"Dunfanaghy Donegal\" target=\"_blank\">Dunfanaghy<\/a> and Letterkenny.<\/p>\n<p>A substantial monastery was established just outside the village by St Columbcille in the 6th century. It was endowed by Columba&#8217;s brother-in-law Nean\u00e1in and his four sons entered it and it is because of them that the place got its name. The monastery was destroyed in the 12th century. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Holiday Homes in Kilmacrennan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/towns\/holiday-cottage-kilmacrennan.php\">holiday homes in Kilmacrennan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Kilmacrennan Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/category\/kilmacrennan\/\">more information about Kilmacrennan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the invitation of the local O&#8217;Donnell chieftains, the Franciscans founded a Friary near the village in the 16th century. This survived until the first decade of the 17th century when the lands were &#8220;granted&#8221; to James Fullerton by King James I. Much of the village and surrounding area came under the &#8220;land lordship&#8221; of the Lord Leitrim later.<\/p>\n<p>There is a thatched cottage that was once part of a folk village at the bottom of the main street.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby Doon Rock is the site of the Inauguration Place of the O&#8217;Donnell Chieftains of Donegal for many centuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Kilmacrennan Self Catering Map<\/h3>\n<p>[mappress mapid=&#8221;55&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>YouTube Video of Kilmacrennan Area<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMeDEfw6N0o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilmacrennan Self Catering &#8211; Kilmacrennan is a quiet hillside village which is skirted by the Lurgy River on the road between Dunfanaghy and Letterkenny. A substantial monastery was established just outside the village by St Columbcille in the 6th century. It was endowed by Columba&#8217;s brother-in-law Nean\u00e1in and his four sons entered it and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilmacrennan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kilmacrennan Self Catering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kilmacrennan Self Catering - view a selection of holiday homes in the Kilmacrennan area of north central Donegal. 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