Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glenmakee, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmakee
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.27071, -7.31477
- SMR number
- DG011-010----
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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, identified by Colhoun (1949, 116) as a 'multiple-chambered cairn', is a small stone-built structure, subrectangular in outline, measuring 1.8m long (N-S) by c. 1.3m wide. Small upright stones set in the ground define three of its sides. The western side, if it exists, is obscured by dumped stones. The feature is somewhat cist-like in appearance, but there is a doubt about its antiquity. The remains of what appear to be boreholes at the edge of two of the structural stones suggest that they have been quarried in modern times, perhaps by blasting.
Colhoun 1949, 116; SMR 1987, 11:10; Colhoun 1995, no. 11/46 recte 11/41, 38; RMP 1995, 11:10.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.