Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Toulett, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toulett
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.02190, -7.44753
- SMR number
- DG047-009001-
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
A trigonmetrical station seems to have been built from the remains of a cairn 12.4m N-S × 13.8m E-W the perimeter of which is still traceable. A stone lying nearby to the SSE 1m × 0.75m has a small plain cross 12cms × 13cms carved on it as well as modern graffiti. It is situated on the highest point of an E-W ridge in mountain terrain dominated to the E by Greenan mountain.
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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.