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Cairn - clearance cairn

Foffanagh, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - clearance cairn, Foffanagh, 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
Foffanagh
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.16256, -7.38911
SMR number
DG029-058001-

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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 group of three small possible field clearance cairns (DG029-058002-/003-) situated on an E-W terrace on the S facing slope of Kinnagoe Hill. A hut site (DG029-048) is located 80m to the SW and a second cairn (DG029-058002-) is located 10m to the N. These small cairns may be associated with a field system (DG029-059002-). The heather covered field walls of this field system can be seen to the N and S of the cairns. This heather covered cairn (diam. 5m ; H 1m) may be the result of field clearance of the terrace on which the cairn is situated and may be associated with the hut site located 80m to the SW. A second possible hut site (DG029-059001-) is located 28m to the W.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision : 24 November 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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