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Cairn - unclassified

Baile Bun An Abair, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Baile Bun An Abair, 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
Baile Bun An Abair
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Carn (1905)
Coordinates
55.04095, -7.87124
SMR number
DG044-005001-

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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, named 'Druid's Grave' on the original OS 6-inch map (1834-5), is a round cairn in which a large cist containing a human skeleton and two small pottery vessels were found in around 1830 (OS Name Book, 1834; Fagan 1845-8; Waddell 1990, 70).

A cairn c. 12m in diameter and 1m high is partly overgrown and disturbed. Turf cutting on the W side has revealed three revetment stones. An early report (Fagan Bk. 9, 6) records that an enclosed grave 6ft to 7ft in length made with stone slabs and covered by a slab 6ft 3in long was found in the 1830's. The cist contained pulverised earth and calcined bones. The cairn is located on a low rise in an area of blanket bog with a lot of rock outcrop.

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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