Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Drumnasillagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumnasillagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.79251, -8.26609
- SMR number
- DG074-005----
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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
An almost semicircular area defined on its NE edge by a cliff face, running NW-SE, and elsewhere by 3 curving collapsed stone wall. A distance of 100m of cliff edge, which is irregular and steep but not sheer, is enclosed. The radius of the semicircle is 50m. The wall is evident in places as a low rise or as a spread of collapsed stone. At its SE end, where it has been mostly robbed to build a nearby field wall, the wall turns to run along the cliff edge for a short distance. The interior is uneven and covered with peat. The site is located strategically on a prominent hill overlooking the valley of the Owenea river to the S. It has a good view of a vast plain to the W but is overlooked by higher ground to the E. The terrain consists of rough bog-covered grazing land.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.