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The Taj Mahal, in the hills of Donegal... A church in ruins, built in homage to a deceased husband.
200 years after the Taj Mahal, one of the 7 wonders of the world which were commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal, a woman erected her own monument to devotion, love, and loss in Co Donegal.

Lying silently at the foot of Mount Errigal, the tallest of the Derryveagh Mountain range and the largest in Donegal is the stunning ruin of the Old Church of Dunlewey. A beautiful building which is a lasting memorial to a great love affair between James Russell, the landlord of the Dunlewey estate, and his wife Jane.

James Russell married Jane Smith in 1825 and they set up married life in London. James would go on to make a fortune as a hop merchant. The couple was blessed with five daughters: Fannie, Henrietta, Emma, Louisa Sarah, and Josephine.

Using the wealth they had acquired in London, the couple decided to leave England and purchase the Dunlewey estate, an area of sheep, lakes, and outstanding natural beauty with the wild Atlantic to the west and the Derryveagh Mountains to the East.

The estate is recorded as consisting of a house, outbuildings, gate lodges, and 3825 acres of land, a large holding by the standards of the day.

Little is written of their time in Dunlewey, but James died on the 2nd of September 1848. Heartbroken, his widow decided to build the church as a monument for her husband. Like the Taj Mahal, the Church of Ireland building was constructed using white marble and also blue quartzite which was quarried locally.

The supply of marble in the nearby quarry has now been depleted. The red brick in the arches of the windows was produced locally. Remnants of the brickfield are still visible near Oilean Ghrainne when the level of the lake is lowered.

The Dunlewey Church is a pretty little 19th-century church at the foot of Mount Errigal. Lost in the middle of nowhere, it benefits from an exceptional charm and authenticity, which should delight lovers of stories and legends!
The story goes that it was Jane Smith Russell who built the monument. She would have built it, as a tribute to her late husband, James Russell, owner of the Dunlewey estate, who died on September 2, 1848, and was buried in a vault in the church. The church was built in white marble and blue quartzite, local materials, which did not require great transportation costs. Now in ruins, the building is magnificent and has a breathtaking view of the Errigal mountain, but also of the valley and its lakes.

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