Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Meenacargagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meenacargagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DG077-034----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1846 Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited a site called 'Labbagrania' in this townland, 5 furlongs (c. 1km) NW of the road leading from Ballybofey to Donegal town on the holding of Hugh Dermod. He described it as the 'ruins of a pagan sepulture', orientated more or less N-S, which was 12 feet (c. 3.65m) long and 91/2 feet (c. 2.9m) wide. Only a small number of stones were then in place. Three of these measured, on average, 31/2 feet (c. 1.05m) high, 3-31/2 feet (c. 0.9-1.05m) broad and a 1/2 foot to 1 foot (c. 0.15-0.3m) thick. A note alongside Fagan's report in another hand states that this site should not be shown on the OS 6-inch map, which suggests a doubt on the part of the field reviser about its authenticity.
In 1989 a wedge tomb (Dg. 98) was discovered in this townland. Fagan's account of the site he called 'Labbagrania' is not sufficiently detailed to permit a definite conclusion about whether it and the wedge tomb are one and the same.
Fagan 1845-8, book 13, 3.
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