Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
An Cheathrú Riabhach (tc An Bheart),toulett, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cheathrú Riabhach (tc An Bheart),toulett
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.02386, -7.42655
- SMR number
- DG047-012004-
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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
The site generally referred to as the 'Grianán of Aileach' (National Monument number 140) consists of a restored cashel (DG047-012001-) centrally placed within a series of three enclosing earthen banks (DG047-012005-), a cairn (DG047-012002-), an approaching 'ancient road' (DG047-012004-) and a holy well (DG047-012003-).
The innermost of the three enclosing banks of the cashel is at a distance of c. 25m from the cashel wall. It is very low, worn and heather-covered, but traceable for almost its entire circuit. A gap to the ENE gave onto the 'ancient road' or routeway (DG047-012004-), which approached the summit of the hill between two natural ledges of rock outcrop. Petrie's plan of the site shows the distance between this gap and the cashel entrance lined by settings of stones.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.