Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Druminderry Upper And Lower, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Druminderry Upper And Lower
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn(1904)
- Coordinates
- 55.15339, -7.39571
- SMR number
- DG029-014----
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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
Colhoun (1949) recorded a 'multiple-chambered cairn' in this townland. The site referred to is that listed in the heading. This is a small heap of stones c. 6m in diameter and 1.25m high (Lacy 1983).
Colhoun 1949, 116 ('Druminderry'); Lacy 1983, 60, no. 251; SMR 1987, 29:14; Colhoun 1995, 67-8; RMP 1995, 29:14.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.