Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
An An Mhullaigh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An An Mhullaigh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot and Granias Bed (1907)
- Coordinates
- 54.79474, -8.20319
- SMR number
- DG075-002----
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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
First shown on the 1848-50 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this is a shelter-like feature built against the steep face of a rocky knoll. An upright slab 1.5m E of and parallel to the base of the knoll is 2m long, 0.4m thick and 1.6m high. This supports the eastern edge of a sloping roof-slab, 2.3m by 1.6m, the western edge of which rests on a ledge at a height of c. 0.6m on the rock face. Closeby to the S there is another slab on the ground. It is clear from OS documents that this structure was in its present state in the middle of the 19th century. An entry in an OS Revision Name Book (1848-50) records a claim that it was a place of worship 'some hundreds of years ago'.
Fagan 1845-8, book 23, 11; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 75 (1848-50), 10; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 75 (1903), 34; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 176; SMR 1987, 75:2; RMP 1995, 75:2.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.