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Cairn - unclassified

Ballymagaraghy, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Ballymagaraghy, 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
Ballymagaraghy
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.26844, -7.04460
SMR number
DG012-018003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Scotland (Southern part). XIII" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1841 · Scotland (Southern part). XIII (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough upland pasture, dotted with rushes and clumps of gorse, and strewn with stones and disused field walls. This cairn (3m NE−SW; 2.7m NW−SE; H 0.7m) surrounds the base of a pair of standing stones (DG012-018001-). The bulk of the cairn is piled against the NW face of the standing stones, and in its NE-SW length, ends more or less flush with the NW stone but extends a little beyond the SE stone. It fills the intervening space (Wth c. 0.75m NE-SW) between the stones and spills out to NW and SE between the two stones, and has a gently domed NW−SE profile. Along its NW side, medium to large sized stones, some of which are embedded in the ground surface, are visible in the basal layer of the cairn. A number of large stones lie on top of the basal layer and piled above this is a loose, jumbled heap of small to medium-sized stones, resembling field clearance. The antiquity of the cairn is uncertain. It appears to post-date the standing stones. It may be the result of the incorporation of the standing stones into a later field fence, now removed, or it may simply be a field clearance heap.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 11 July 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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