Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowmore Or Glentogher, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore Or Glentogher
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.18775, -7.24908
- SMR number
- DG020-008001-
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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
Internal diam. c. 22m. Originally marked as a 'Fort', and subsequently as a 'Children's Burial Ground' (DG020-008002-) on the OS 6-inch maps. The remains are overgrown and have been eroded by ploughing, so that the stone-built enclosing wall survives only on the E side, to a maximum height of 1.5m. There is a possible entrance on the W side and stones in the interior may mark burials. It is situated in a cultivated field, which slopes towards the E to the Glentogher river.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.