Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Reachlainn Uí Bhirn, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reachlainn Uí Bhirn
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.66398, -8.82576
- SMR number
- DG089-018010-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The outline of a rectangular building, 6.2m by 3.lm internally, is discernible in an oval spread of rubble 8m to the north of structure (8) (Walsh 1983, Fig 19, 10); its interior is littered with collapse and the walls are flush with the ground. The nature or purpose of this building is unclear. Herity (1995, 92) suggests that it might be ‘a secular house of late medieval or post-medieval date.’
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 February 2014
References
Walsh, P. 1983 The monastic settlement on Rathlin O'Birne Island, County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 113, 53-66.
Herity, M. 1995 Two Island Hermitages in the Atlantic: Rathlin O'Birne, Donegal, and Caher Island, Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 125, 85-128.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.