Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Kiltyfergal, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltyfergal
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.82259, -7.91669
- SMR number
- DG068-031----
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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 is listed as a 'dolmen' by Borlase (1897) and later as a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967). All trace of it had been removed by 1904 (OS 1:2,500 Name Book). Although there is no information about the nature of the site, there can be little doubt that this, like most other sites so named on the OS 6-inch maps of County Donegal, was a Penal altar.
Borlase 1897, 236, Raphoe South no. 3; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 68 (1904), 24; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 81; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 92.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.