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Cairn - unclassified

Magheranaul, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Magheranaul, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Magheranaul
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cloghtogle (1834)
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
55.29002, -7.32094
SMR number
DG004-048002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This feature is mentioned in some of the unpublished documents of the original OS 6-inch survey (1834), but no details are provided about its nature. It is not shown on later editions of the OS 6-inch map, where instead a space incorporating the position shown on the 1834 map is identified as 'St. Buchan's Burial Ground'. This burial ground is an irregular platform, measuring 23m N-S by 31.3m E-W, at the highest point of which is a small cairn. On top of the cairn is an upright slab, one of several presumed grave-markers (Lacy 1983). There seems little reason to suppose that the term 'Cloghtogle' in this instance referred to a megalithic tomb.
OS Name Book, Clonmany parish (1834), 20; OS Memoir, Clonmany parish (1834), 16; Borlase 1897, 229, Inishowen East no. 1; Lacy 1983, 282-3, no. 1594; SMR 1987, 4:48; Colhoun 1995, 13, no. 4/21; RMP 1995, 4:48.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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