Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Monreagh Or Barr 0f Kilmackilvenny, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monreagh Or Barr 0f Kilmackilvenny
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.07235, -7.40235
- SMR number
- DG038-028----
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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
A low, widely-spread mound of stones c. 15m in diameter. It is much disturbed by the erection of a field boundary across it and by the digging of two pits in it. There are possible indications of a kerb on the NW side and one stone 1.5m × 0.75m now recumbent may have been formerly upright. It is situated on a fairly level ridge on the S slope of Asdevlin Hill. In 1942, pieces of white quartz, burnt bone and a plano-convex flint knife were found at the cairn
(M.R. Colhoun).
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.