Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Knockglass, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockglass
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn (Site of) (1903)
- Coordinates
- 55.32548, -7.30467
- SMR number
- DG004-008----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This feature, named 'Carn' on the 1834 and 1848 editions of the OS 6-inch map, is listed as a 'multi-chambered cairn' by Colhoun (1949, 117). There are no remains at this spot nor any reliable information about its nature.
Colhoun 1949, 117; Bonner 1972, 14, 16; SMR 1987, 4:8; Colhoun 1995, 11; RMP 1995, 4:8
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.