Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Islandroy Barr Or Drumfin, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islandroy Barr Or Drumfin
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1905)
- Coordinates
- 55.12084, -7.75546
- SMR number
- DG027-020----
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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, first shown on the 1848-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map, is on a bog-grown hill-ridge. It consists of a single slab on edge near the eastern side of a hole measuring 4m N-S 1.8m E-W and 0.5m deep in an uncut portion of bog. The slab is 2.8m long (N-S) 0.45m thick and 0.7m in exposed height. In around the middle of the 19th century the stone, said to mark the grave of the mythical hero Fionn Mac Cumhaill, was nearly covered by the bog (OS Revision Name Book, 1848-9), and so it appears that the hole has been dug since then. Despite the name accorded to the site on the OS 6-inch map, there is now no convincing evidence that the stone formed part of a megalithic tomb.
OS Revision Name Book, sheet 27 (1848-9), 24; L.W. Lucas 1962, 13; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 166; SMR 1987, 27:20; RMP 1995, 27:20.
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
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