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Cross Roads

Na Croisbhealaí

The Cross Roads settlement near Killygordon developed around churches of different traditions, each with a documented building history.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of St Anne’s Church, Cross Roads.
Illustration, St Anne’s Church, Cross Roads
Recorded locationCross Roads54.78584° N · 7.69130° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Na Croisbhealaí · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Cross Roads · English · main form
  • Cross, The · English · main form · local name

Place & story

Saint Anne’s chapel of ease

Saint Anne’s Church of Ireland church was built in 1833 as a chapel of ease linked to Saint Patrick’s outside Castlefinn. Its three-bay nave and western tower stand within a graveyard in the centre of Cross Roads. The interior preserves carved timber features and a memorial to parishioners who died in the First World War, alongside an encaustic tiled floor. [2]

Saint Patrick’s and its later spire

O’Neill and Byrne designed the Catholic Saint Patrick’s Church for Rev. Edward Boyle. Its foundation stone was laid on 12 April 1872, and the church was dedicated on 25 April 1875. The Irish Architectural Archive records a Gothic design with a high roof and quatrefoil clerestory openings. The belfry and spire were added in 1896; Edward J. Toye later sought tenders for improvements in 1903. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Donegal
Civil parish
Donaghmore
Within
Dromore
Coordinates
54.78584, -7.69130
Logainm ID
111105 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Cross Roads. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Saint Anne’s Church (Donaghmore), Dromore (Gleneely), Cross Roads — NIAH 40839020 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Crossroads (Killygordon), Church of St Patrick (RC) · Irish Architectural Archive / Dictionary of Irish Architects
  4. St Anne’s Church, Cross Roads illustration: based on a St Anne's Church of Ireland, Monnellan by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-05-05. How this page was prepared.