In the vicinity of the former village of Carne, Templecarne townland, on the old road to the lough, 1.5 miles north of Pettigoe and 2 miles south of Lough Derg, county Donegal

The initial recording of this graveyard was begun by Reverend Father P.O. Gallachair, PE, PRSAI, of Derrygonnelly. The recording was completed prior to July 2010 by Mr P Slevin of Ballygee and Mr John A Cunningham, MA, of Belleek, county Donegal. [Note: The copy of the list of monumental inscriptions used by the primary contributor of the memorials herewithin, provide neither a schematic of the gravestones, nor row-and-plot numbers; the list of inscriptions was more-or-less (but not completely) alphabetic in presentation].

The site of Templecarne, or Carne, Graveyard, is one of the most ancient Christian centres in Donegal. Although no Church is to be seen now, a church did exist there for hundreds of years and its outline was still sufficiently visible to be recorded on the first Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland. The graveyard is surrounded by a substantial scotch-paved wall, which no doubt incorporates the bulk of the masonry which made up the former church. The grounds were used as a burial place by the incoming planter families after 1610, and remained in use into the mid-1800s, through various periods of political upheaval and religious restriction. Certain families from the area were still burying loved ones at Carne as recently as 1970.

It is significant to note that, while most of the gravestones recorded by Father Gallachair still exist and may be legible in our time, there were many more burials in Carne Cemetery for which markers were either uninscribed or never put in place. Others have been lost to weather and the passage of time. As well, there are believed to be thousands of totally unknown and unrecorded interments in these grounds over the centuries.

But the absence of a marker does not erase the memory of at least some of those buried in Carne. Two men of as varied background as possible rest there now with unmarked graves: the Reverend Alexander Calhoun, Vicar of Templecarne, whose great-grandson, John Caldwell Calhoun, served as vice-president of the United States between 1824 and 1832; and the notorious gentleman highwayman Prionsias Dubh McHugh (alias Black Frank), who is still remembered in local song and story.