Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - clearance cairn
Marfagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marfagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.18794, -8.02015
- SMR number
- DG015-031003-
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
Low field clearance cairn situated inside large field which is one of several fields in a large field system (DG015-031002-) of unknown date. The monument consists of a low grass covered stone cairn (H 0.3m; diam. 4.5m) and apprears to be the remains of a field clearance cairn inside a large field which is part of an extensive field system (DG015-031002-) and nearby stone enclosure (DG015-031). A second field clearance cairn (DG015-031003-) is located 35m to the S. These clearance cairns appear to be post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 02 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - embankedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.