Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Carrowcashel, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcashel
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Friars Seat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Friars Seat
- Coordinates
- 55.01197, -7.61181
- SMR number
- DG046-034----
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
Depicted on the current edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map in gothic script as 'Friar's Seat' and partially hachured as a cliff-face. The potential monument has not been visited and it is possible that this could be a geological feature rather than a natural feature. Described in 1886 as 'on a crag, a little to the N. W. of the abbey, is a flat stone called the "Friar's Seat" ' (Kinahan 1886, 424).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 17 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.