Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballynarry, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynarry
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.15190, -7.47614
- SMR number
- DG029-017002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located immediately to E of a cashel (DG029-017001-) on top of Crockacashel Hill, which rises directly from the rocky shore of Lough Swilly to the W. Boyle-Somerville (1909, 232-233) recorded that ‘In the saddle between the two tops of the hill and close outside the wall of the cashel there are six small stone circles, each perfect or nearly so, but low, and composed of comparatively small stones, all untrimmed.’ Lacy (1983, 116, no. 707) noted four small circles of stones, about 3m in diameter, to the E of the cashel, between it and the second summit on this hill.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 December 2017
References
Boyle-Somerville, T. 1909 Ancient stone monuments near Lough Swilly, County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 39, 192-202 and 215-33.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.