Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Clonmass, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmass
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.16848, -7.89679
- SMR number
- DG016-029----
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
Thomas Fagan (1845-8) claimed that 'an extensive sepulture' stood 'a few perches' N of the 'Cromlech' (App. 2, No. 11) in this townland but that it had been removed in the course of land reclamation sometime before his visit in 1845. On the basis of local information, he claimed that it had consisted of 'many long graves each enclosed at sides and ends by great slabs and in each of which skulls and other human bones of unusually large size have been found'. The floors of some of the graves were said to have been bedded with sea sand and shells. There is now no trace of any such feature in the vicinity mentioned by Fagan. His second-hand account may well relate to a destroyed megalithic tomb, but more evidence would be required before this could be accepted as one.
Fagan 1845-8, book 4, 17.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.