Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Málainn Bhig, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Málainn Bhig
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.65764, -8.74084
- SMR number
- DG089-026003-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1702 "A chart of the NORTH-WEST coast of IRELAND from LOUGH SWILLY to SLYNE HEAD" (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In poorly drained rushy covered mountain pasture, on the SE facing slope of Leahan Mountain with views of the sea to the S and Slieve League to the W. There is a clustered settlement of several hut sites (DG089-026004-/010-) 110m to the E. The poorly preserved heather covered remains of what appears to be three small square-shaped adjoining hut sites (DG089-026001/002/003-) or possibly the remains of a single rectangular house with three square-shaped chambers. The wall footings of the W wall of a third possible hut site (DG089-026003-) runs off the NW angle of the middle hut site. Only the grass covered wall footings of the W wall (L 3.2m) of a possible third hut site survives. Located in an area of a dense concentration of hut sites which appear to make up a clustered settlement (DG089-026001/021).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.