Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Magheranaul, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheranaul
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghtogle (1903)
- Coordinates
- 55.28967, -7.32126
- SMR number
- DG004-048003-
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 site was first shown on the 1848 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is a standing stone, 2m high, on one face of which is a large inscribed cross, a miniature cross and two small circular depressions.
OS Revision Name Book, sheet 4 (1848), 13; Lacy 1983, 282-3, no. 1594; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 174; SMR 1987, 4:48; Colhoun 1995, 12-13, no. 4/20; 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
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.