Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Lettermore (binbans Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lettermore (binbans Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghbrack Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 54.70913, -8.23208
- SMR number
- DG084-002001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked 'Cloghbrack Burial Ground' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site consists of part of a circle of standing stones, the N and E sides only surviving. Nine stones survive. The interior is covered with a light scatter of stones but there is no evidence for the 'central grave' recorded here by Davies in 1940. A discontinuous wall runs for 33.5m N-S from the highest surviving stone of the circle. The wall is made up of orthostats and flat-topped boulders. 19m E of this wall, a second wall runs roughly NNE-SSW for 15m. The site is located in rough pasture with rock outcrop and blanket bog.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tomb2 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.