Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
Templedouglas, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templedouglas
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar (1906)
- Coordinates
- 54.96782, -7.85895
- SMR number
- DG052-019005-
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
This feature, listed by Borlase (1897) as a possible 'dolmen', is a small barrel-vaulted structure built between 1840 and 1850 (Lacy 1983). It stands in the graveyard of a ruined 16th-century church.
OS Revision Name Book, sheet 52 (1845-7), 8; Borlase 1897, 234, Kilmacrenan no. 28; Lacy 1983, 294, no. 1615.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.