Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Reachlainn Uí Bhirn, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reachlainn Uí Bhirn
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.66387, -8.82603
- SMR number
- DG089-018013-
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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
This possible house is located immediately north-west of the south-western entrance to the enclosure (DG089-018004-). It is described by Herity (1995, 92) as ‘the foundations of a roughly rectangular building greatly robbed and degraded, over five metres long on a north-east south-west axis and a little over three metres wide. Its entrance seems to be in the southern comer, controlling the entrance to the enclosure surrounding the knoll. The placing suggests a guard-house; the size might suggest use as a guest-house.’
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 February 2014
Image DG089-018013-_01 (taken 21 July 1983): a view looking east with the remains of this house site in the foreground and two others (DG089-018028- and DG089-018029-) in the background.
References
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.