Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Ballynarry, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynarry
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.16575, -7.48679
- SMR number
- DG019-021----
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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
Killanin and Duignan (1962; 1967), following Somerville (1929), claimed that there is a 'ruinous prehistoric chamber tomb' on Crockacashel in this townland. There is here, on the overgrown hillslope overlooking the E shore of Lough Swilly, a long and narrow oval pile of large stones c. 30m long and 12m wide. In the middle of this heap there is a cavity under a large block resting unevenly on two opposed blocks. Whatever the origin of this great heap of stones, the so-called chamber appears to be a fortuitous occurrence.
Somerville 1929, 160-62 (plan, photograph); Anon. 1951, 350; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 113; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 127.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.