The Irish Times

The setting of an important modern building is being destroyed by the construction of large houses overlooking it. The Church of St Aengus in Burt, Co Donegal, is one of the most important buildings of the 20th century in Ireland. It was voted "Building of the Century" in a Sunday Tribune poll in 1999 and won a gold medal for its architect, the late Liam McCormick. The circular, stone-walled church, with its sweeping copper roof and spire, took its inspiration from the Grianán of Aileach, the Bronze Age fort that stands above it, overlooking loughs Foyle and Swilly and guarding approaches to the Inishowen Peninsula.