Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Sharagore, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sharagore
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghtogle (1905)
- Coordinates
- 55.19776, -7.51529
- SMR number
- DG018-011----
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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
This feature was first shown on the 1847-50 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It consists of two large slabs, one prostrate and the other lying partly on it and partly on the ground. The prostrate slab measures 3.5m by 2m by 0.75m thick. The other measures 3m by 2.5m by 0.6m. These stones were in their present positions in 1850 (OS Revision Name Book, 1847-50). Their origin is uncertain, but there is no indication now that they formed part of an artificial structure.
OS Revision Name Book, sheet 18 (1847-50), 15; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 181; SMR 1987, 18:11; Colhoun 1995, 56, no. 18/6, plate 8 (b); RMP 1995, 18:11.
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
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.