Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Kilmonaster Middle, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmonaster Middle
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (Site of) (1906)
- Coordinates
- 54.82301, -7.57075
- SMR number
- DG070-069001-
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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)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This feature, of which there is no visible trace, was first shown on the 1845-7 revision of the OS 6-inch map. It stood 50m SW of the last. Thomas Fagan identified it as a 'Giant's Grave' and wrote that it, like the last described, was 'enclosed by large flags standing 1 to 2 feet [c. 0.3-0.6m] high'. He added that it occupied a space measuring 24 feet by 14 feet (c. 7.3m by 4.25m) within which lay 'a flat stone 6 feet [c. 1.8m] square and 1 to 21/2 feet [c. 0.3-0.45m] thick and in one end raised 2 feet [c. 0.6m]'. According to an entry in the OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1903-4), all trace of this monument was removed in around 1870.
Fagan's account seems to describe some form of megalithic structure, but its nature is not at all clear.
Fagan 1845-8, book 10, 32; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 70 (1905), 72; Ó Nualláin 1968b, 12-13, site H; Herity 1974, 214, Dg. 8; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 36-7, no. 82; SMR 1987, 70:69; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 70:69.
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
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