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
- 54.74352, -8.68464
- SMR number
- DG081-030----
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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 15 (Costello 2016, 346; Costello 2020, 86). Rectangular cut-away section of peat on flat ground 5m S of meandering stream. Aligned E-W. May simply be the result of trial-cutting for peat but size, execution and presence of possible entrances suggest an alternative – that it was a sunken hut (dims. 3.4m x 2.5m x D 0.6m). There is a green patch of vegetation directly on the other side of the stream, perhaps because of manuring, and possible cultivation ridges were seen just to the north of this.
See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload: 27 August 2020
References
Costello, E. 2020 Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900. Woodbridge. Boydell.
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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.