Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Cashelnavean, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashelnavean
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicted
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashelnabean
- Coordinates
- 54.75928, -7.90563
- SMR number
- DG086-001----
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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
Internal diam. 95m. A large circular area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall, many of the stones of which have been used to build sheep folds against the wall. There is a large amount of rock outcrop inside the enclosure including some on each side of a gap in the wall to the NW which may have been the entrance. It is situated on a slightly higher and drier ridge on a wet boggy hillside above Lough Mourne and the ancient route-way through the Barnesmore Gap to the SW which it commands. Named 'Cashelnabean' on the 1906 OS 6-inch map.
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 revised upload: 7 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb1 mi
- Fulacht fia1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.