Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Drumgreggan, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgreggan
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.94938, -7.67451
- SMR number
- DG053-059----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a field of flat, damp rush-grown pasture, which is traversed by field drains, in an area of lowlying terrain bordering the S bank of the River Swilly. The steeply rising slope of a NE−SW ridge borders the S side of the field, c. 30m S of the enclosure.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Visible as a circular feature (diam. 35-38m) in aerial imagery (Digital globe; Google earth) and in Lidar imagery. The imagery suggests the presence of a levelled circular enclosure. In the field a subtle rise is evident, which differs from the rest of the field in that it is largely devoid of field rushes, the grass growth has a slightly richer hue and the ground surface is drier underfoot. However, the full circular outline of an enclosure cannot be confidently traced at ground level. The E side of the area is defined by a slight raised grassy linear feature (Wth c. 2m; L c. 12m NNW−SSE). A field ditch (Wth 2m; D 0.8-1m) on a roughly NE-SW axis cuts across the N edge of the area, probably clipping the enclosure.
Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère.
Attached images:
DG053-059----_01.JPG Viewed from S
DG053-059----_02.JPG Viewed from N
DG053-059----_03.JPG Lidar imagery
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 February 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.