Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Claggan (Dunfanaghy ED), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claggan (Dunfanaghy ED)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.20741, -7.99607
- SMR number
- DG015-006----
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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
An oval area 75m SE-NW by 32m NE-SW enclosed by a low, grassed-over wall of loose stones revetted on the inner and outer sides by a loose row of small blocks. A 23m stretch of similarly constructed wall runs from the enclosure in a straight line towards the NW. It stops only .6m from the side of Claggan Court-tomb (DG015-005-). This wall and the enclosure wall are clearly of a single construction. They are 3m to 3.5m in width. The revetment edges are .4m high but the inner 'core' is slightly lower. There is a 2m gap in the enclosure wall to the SW. A ruined wall runs roughly NE-SW across the middle of the site. A ruined field bank meets the enclosure wall just N of the gap. There are a number of heaps of loose stones in the interior and some rock outcrop. The site is on a low rise at the SW of a plateau of high ground with steep fall to the S and W, in an area of light pasture.
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
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.