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.Logainm.ie: Abhainn Chró Nimhe / Cronaniv Burn. https://www.logainm.ie/en/1395819?s=Cronaniv+Burn 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 '' Gaoth Dobhair'', a district in the north-west of

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, the northern

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in Ireland.'"Beating a retreat in Donegal" - Francis Bradley is reminded that there's no shame in turning back when conditions take a turn for the worse on a walk to Slieve Snaght via the Poisoned Glen' (''

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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,

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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 glen'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 area of County Donegal, Ireland. It sits in the Poisoned Glen, at the foot of Errigal and on the shore of Dunlewey Lough. The Cronani ...

(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 '' Pevsner Guide to North West Ulster''), p. 270.

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, London, 2003 (originally published by

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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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