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Mín Na Saileach, County Donegal, Ireland

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Townland
Mín Na Saileach
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.74699, -8.67222
SMR number
DG081-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 10 (Costello 2016, 344; Costello 2020, 84). Possible shelter (int. dims. 1.5m x 1m) located between two large boulders. Presence of a line of stones in this space suggests an attempt to create a rudimentary shelter.

See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello

Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello

Date of upload: 27 August 2020

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.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.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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