Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Tullynabratilly, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullynabratilly
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Darbys Bed (1834)
- Coordinates
- 55.26614, -7.35387
- SMR number
- DG010-020----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This feature, named 'Darby's Bed' on the original edition of the OS 6-inch map (1834), is shown but not named on the revised 6-inch map of 1848. It stands at the western edge of a stream and consists of two stones at right angles to each other. The larger one, an upright slab, lies ENE-WSW and is 1.07m long, 0.2m thick and 1m high. The smaller stone is just S of the eastern end of the larger. This is a low stone, 1m long, 0.5m thick and 0.3m high. The nature of this artificial feature is unclear.
Borlase 1897, 229, Inishowen East no. 7; Lacy 1983, 88, no. 501; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 184 (the description here arose from a misidentification of the site); SMR 1987, 10:20; RMP 1995, 10:20.
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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.