Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Mín An Laig, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mín An Laig
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.85566, -7.97276
- SMR number
- DG067-008----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in on a NNE-facing slope immediately above the high, steep SSW bank of the River Finn. Rough mountainous terrain. Grass-covered, dome-shaped mound of earth and stone (dims. 5.2m ENE-WSW - 4.8m NNW-SSE; H 0.25m - 0.92). It is higher and better-defined at the ESE half of the site then the WNW. There is a well-defined depression (Wth. c. 1m; D 0.6m) immediately WNW of centre. The mound is encircled by a well-defined, flat-bottomed, steep-sided fosse (Wth. 1.25m - 1.5m). At the outer lip of the fosse is a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth. 1.4m - 2.1m; H above fosse 0.65m - 1.2m; H above ext. ground level 0.3m - 0.55m). The site is divided into unequal portions by a modern E-W post-and-wire fence. The much larger portion lies to the N of this.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 19 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.