Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Drung (malin Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drung (malin Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.31082, -7.31354
- SMR number
- DG004-018----
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
Three cist graves were excavated here containing the remains of an adult male, an adult female and an infant. It was suggested that they were buried shortly after one another. A bronze awl, a piece of rock crystal and a Bronze Age pygmy cup were found in the cists.
(Rynne 1963).
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
References
Rynne E. 1963 Bronze Age burials at Drung, county Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 93, 169-79.
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.