Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Keeloges (church Hill Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keeloges (church Hill Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DG052-009----
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record for a possible souterrain is based on a reference in Kinahan (1887, 425) which noted that ‘In the abrupt hill of Leafin there is a lusca’ or artificial cave. Kinahan did not record the exact location. An inspection by the Donegal Survey in 1980 found no visible evidence or local knowledge of a souterrain on the hill (Lacy, 1983, 235, no. 1479). The souterrain was listed in the RMP (1996) at IG co-ordinates 20721 41448 (ITM 607160 914469), however, these co-ordinates were for an arbitrary point on the summit of Leafin Hill, and did not record the precise location of the possible souterrain, which remains unknown. A commercial quarry has dug away the bulk of the hill, and it is likely that if a souterrain existed, it has been destroyed.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of revised upload: 8 November 2017
References
Kinahan, G.H. 1885-6 A brief report on antiquities in the County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 424-9.
Lacy, B. 1979 Archaeological survey of Donegal. Donegal Annual, 445-6.