Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Mullandrait, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullandrait
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.80328, -7.75032
- SMR number
- DG078-018----
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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
Indicated on the 1836 OS 6-inch map as ‘Fort’ and shown as a semi-circular arc of bank curving E−S, this appears to represent the remains of a rath truncated by field boundaries at W and N. It is not shown on later map editions, and appears to have been cut later in the 19th century by a railway line. It is recorded in Lacy (1983, 213) as follows: ‘A slightly raised semicircular platform 20-25m in diameter seems to be the remains of the 'Fort' shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated in excellent land on the banks of the River Finn.’
Date of revised upload: 10 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.