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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Cloghfin (Clonleigh North ED), County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Cloghfin, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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