Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Altaghaderry, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Altaghaderry
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 54.99883, -7.39833
- SMR number
- DG047-020001-
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 cairn (DG047-002002-) of earth and stones 1m high surrounded by an earth and stone bank with an overall diameter of 15m. Slightly W of the highest point of the cairn is a stone slab-lined grave (DG047-002003-), 1.5m N-S and 0.85m E-W. It is tilting inwards under pressure from the cairn. A mound of stones on top of the cairn is probably the remains of a trigonometrical station. It is situated on the summit of Holy Well Hill in mountain terrain on the border with County Derry and is regarded as a holy well locally.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.