Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Loughsallagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughsallagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.76932, -7.91812
- SMR number
- DG077-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
There is here, in rough boggy land, a large slab c. 2.5m by 2m by 1.5m thick deliberately placed in a more or less horizontal position on three points of outcropping rock. Two pad-stones are interposed between the base of the raised slab and the top of one of the pieces of outcrop. This arrangement outlines one side, and low stones set on edge in the bog represent the remaining three sides, of a rectangular space measuring 4.5m by 1.5m. The nature and age of this feature are not known, but it is not a megalithic tomb.
Verling 1990, 126; RMP 1995, 77:25.
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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fia2 mi
- Standing stone2 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.