Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Meendoran, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meendoran
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stones (1903)
- Coordinates
- 55.23909, -7.38614
- SMR number
- DG010-035001-
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 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
Colhoun (1949, 117) recorded a 'multiple-chambered cairn', and Killanin and Duignan (1962; 1967) a 'chamber tomb', at Meendoran. The feature is a group of three standing stones (Lacy 1983). Three standing stones, two of which form a N-S alignment while the third is 4.35m to the ENE. The S stone is 1m high × 0.65m wide; N-S. The E stone is 1.4m high × 0.7m wide; N-S. Situated on the N slopes of Meendoran Hill, on pasture land broken by rock outcrop to N.
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.