Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Cloghfin (clonleigh North Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghfin (clonleigh North Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1906)
- Coordinates
- 54.84551, -7.56894
- SMR number
- DG070-043----
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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 was first shown on the 1845-7 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The only information about it is contained in an OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1903), where it is described as a 'supposed Giant's Grave' marked by a spread of boulders. There is now no trace of any boulders at the site nor any visible remains of a monument of any kind.
OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 70 (1905), 50; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 47, no. 149; SMR 1987, 70:43; RMP 1995, 70:43.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.