The Cronaniv Burn ( Irish: ''Abhainn Chró Nimhe'', meaning 'Poisoned Glen River';''Discovery Series'' Sheet 1 (Fourth Edition).

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, 2012.Patrick McKay, ''A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names'', p. 120. The Institute of Irish Studies,

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, Belfast, 1999. the

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name of the burn probably comes from the version ''Cró na Nimhe'', meaning 'Hollow / Glen of the Poison') is a

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or small river that flows through the Poisoned Glen in ''

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'', a district in the north-west of

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, the northern

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in Ireland. In the

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, a 'burn' is a stream or small river.Patrick McKay, ''A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names'', p. 31 (see entries for 'Burnfoot' and 'Burntollet River') and p. 150. The Institute of Irish Studies,

, Belfast, 1999.

Course

The Cronaniv Burn is quite a short

. It rises in the mountains at the southern end of the Poisoned Glen ( Irish: ''Cró Nimhe''), these mountains being part of the Derryveagh Mountains. It then flows in a north-westerly direction for its entire course. The burn flows through the Poisoned Glen, flowing along the middle of the

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's floor. It flows along the southern edge of

Dunlewey ''Dún Lúiche'', known in English as Dunlewey or Dunlewy, is a small ''Gaeltacht'' village in the Gweedore district in the north-west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. The village sits in the Poisoned Glen, at the ...

(Irish: ''Dún Lúiche''), a village at the foot of

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(Irish: ''An Earagail''). The burn then flows into the Devlin River (Irish: ''Abhainn Dhuibhlinne''), joining that river very near its mouth, on the southern edge of Dunlewey. The Devlin River then flows on for a few hundred yards, flowing into Dunlewey Lough (Irish: ''Loch Dhún Lúiche''), the river emptying into the south-eastern end of the

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. Near the mouth of the Cronaniv Burn, beside where the burn meets the Devlin River, sits the ruins of Dunlewey

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Church. This former church, located on the southern outskirts of Dunlewey, was built in the

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style in the early 1850s.Duncan McLaren, T.J. O'Meara and William Cumming, ''An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Donegal'', pp. 93-94 and p. 96 (and a photograph of the church was used on the front cover of this publication). N.I.A.H.,

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, 2014. Alistair Rowan, ''The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster'' (better known as the ''

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to North West Ulster''), p. 270.

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, London, 1979). This publication claims that the church was built in 1844.''We Love Donegal'': Dunlewey Church of Ireland or The Old Church, Dunlewey. http://welovedonegal.com/old-church-dunlewey-poisoned-glen.html The building was formerly a '

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' for the Church of Ireland Parish of Tullaghobegley. The church was finally closed in 1955, when its roof was removed, and has been derelict ever since.

References

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