Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Lisfannan (burt Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisfannan (burt Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Friars Grave (1905)
- Coordinates
- 55.10245, -7.45852
- SMR number
- DG038-002001-
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
Indicated as 'Friar's Grave' on the OS 6-inch maps. Borlase (1897) listed this site as a possible 'dolmen' on the basis of its name on the OS 6-inch map. It is a small heap of stones beside a holy well (DG038-002----) (Lacy 1983).
OS Name Book, Fahan Upper parish (1833-4), 1; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 38 (1847-8), 45; Borlase 1897, 230, Inishowen West no. 4; Somerville 1929, 164; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 113; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 127; Lacy 1983, 305, no. 1708; SMR 1987, 38:2; Colhoun 1995, 82; RMP 1995, 38:2.
There is a hilltop enclosure (DG038-001001-) on the ridge top immediately to SW.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.