Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Mín Na Saileach, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mín Na Saileach
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.74722, -8.67259
- SMR number
- DG081-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as Mín na Saileach 7 (Costello 2016, 343-4; Costello 2020, 86). Roughly square hut site (Ext. dims. 2.5m x 1.6m; int. dims. 1.3m x 1.3m; Wall H 0.8m; T 0.6m) located just under quartz outcrop on a dry, green terrace. Crudely-constructed by arranging two rows of large blocks and utilising the outcrop as a back wall. Southern side left open.
See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload: 27 August 2020
References
Costello, E. 2016 Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD. Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.
Costello, E. 2020 Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900. Woodbridge. Boydell.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.