Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Roosky (Straid ED), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roosky (Straid ED)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.25883, -7.40816
- SMR number
- DG010-026002-
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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)
- 1883 · Scotland. (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
Only a short section of earthen bank and stones, largely reconstructed as a field boundary, survives from this probable cashel (DG010-026001-). An earlier description (M. R. Colhoun) indicates that the site consisted of a circular level space enclosed by a collapsed earth-covered stone wall, with an opening in the SW. A few metres outside to the S was a 4ft sq. recumbent stone with cupmarks. It was then believed (1946) that a 'Dane' was buried in the enclosure and that the site was connected to a souterrain (1500) to the SW. Swan (1949, 18) states that a large slab discovered at the centre of the cashel was part of a souterrain (DG010-026003-). In 1966 during the destruction of the site 4 silver 'Viking' bracelets were found hidden in the wall of the cashel. (Raftery 1969, 133-6).
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.