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Burial ground

Lettermore (Binbans ED), County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Lettermore, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lettermore (Binbans ED)
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Cloghbrack Burial Gd.
Coordinates
54.70915, -8.23237
SMR number
DG084-002002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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 (DG084-002001-), 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.

Date of revision : 16 May 2009
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Nearby in the register

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

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