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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.82334, -7.56994
- SMR number
- DG070-069002-
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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 trace, appears on the 1845-7 revision of the OS 6-inch map, where it is depicted as a standing stone but is not named. It was 50m NE of the next to be described. Both stood on a slight elevation in rolling pasture c. 2km W of Croaghan Hill and c. 400m SE of the cruciform passage tomb (Site A) in the same townland.
Thomas Fagan (1845-8) identified it as a 'Giant's Grave...enclosed by large flags standing 1 to 2 feet [c. 0.3-0.6m] high...[it] is 11 feet [c. 3.3m] square...[in it] there lies a flag 7 feet [c. 2.15m] long, 4 feet [c. 1.2m] broad and 11/2 feet [c. 0.45m] thick and in one end raised 2 feet [c. 0.6m] and seem to cover a grave'.
Thomas Fagan's brief account suggests that there may have been some form of megalithic structure here, but its nature is quite uncertain.
Fagan 1845-8, book 10, 32; Ó Nualláin 1968b, 12-13, site I; Herity 1974, 214, Dg. 9; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 37, no. 83; 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
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.