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Hut site

Dún Dubháin Íochtarach, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Dún Dubháin Íochtarach, 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
Dún Dubháin Íochtarach
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.22569, -7.81382
SMR number
DG007-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Kitchen middens (DG007-002001/003-) are marked here on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map. A bronze pin; half a quern and bones were also reported by Welch (1902, 229) at Tranarossan, and in 1944 M.R. 200m W and closer to the shore, the W half of a circular stone enclosure 12.5m across can be seen. Two courses of drystone construction survive up to .6m in height (DG007-003-). There are short lines of stones visible in the sand E and S of this 'hut'. The site is located behind Rosses Strand on the SE side of Tranarossan Bay.

The above description was published in 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).

Nearby in the register

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

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