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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Eskaheen, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Eskaheen, 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
Eskaheen
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Giants Grave (1904)
Coordinates
55.09233, -7.29257
SMR number
DG039-003----

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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

This feature was first shown on the 1848 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'Giant's Grave'. There is no trace of it now. The only information about it is a brief description in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1902), which states that the name on the map 'applies to an indenture in the ground, the sides are composed of large rocks, and covered by a large flat rock'. This feature, the nature of which is unclear, had been removed by 1941 (Colhoun 1995).
OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 39 (1902), 21; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 380; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381;
Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 164; SMR 1987, 39:3; Colhoun 1995, 92, no. 39/5; RMP 1995, 39:3.

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

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

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