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Raithnigh (TC An Cheathrú Chaol), County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Raithnigh (TC An Cheathrú Chaol), County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Raithnigh (TC An Cheathrú Chaol)
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tempodesha
Latest-edition OS map
Tempodesha (Site of)
Coordinates
55.12750, -7.66596
SMR number
DG027-019001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A well (DG027-019----) which is depicted on the current edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch located a few metres NW of a possible church marked on the map as 'Tempodesha (Site of)'. Recorded by Kinahan in 1889/90 as 'at the N.E. of this townland there is a well called Tempodesha; but any old church that may formerly have existed has disappeared' (Kinahan 1889-90, 278).

Kinahan, G. H. (1889-90) 'Additional List of Megalithic and Other Ancient Structures, Barony of Kilmacrenan, CountyDonegal', Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, FourthSeries, Vol. 9, pp. 277-286.

Compiled by Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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