Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
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
- SMR number
- DG015-030----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Thomas Fagan (1845-8), on the basis of local information supplied to him when visiting Horn Head peninsula in 1845, recorded the destruction of 'a supposed Druid's Altar' called the 'Cloghcorr Stones' in this townland. It stood on a slight rise adjoining Claggan Upper, the name assigned to a group of houses in the townland. It was reportedly encircled by 'a wall or parapet' and consisted of several large upright stones 2-4 feet (c. 0.6-1.2m) high and arranged in two rows a few feet apart with a pillar at either end. All had been removed during the four years before Fagan's visit. His second-hand account could relate to a megalithic tomb, but without further evidence this cannot be accepted as one.
Fagan 1845-8, book 1, 21.
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