Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
An Baile Mór, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Baile Mór
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.65009, -8.69181
- SMR number
- DG090-004009-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
Situated on the summit of Slieve League near the W edge of the mountain ridge overlooking the valley below. One of three hut sites (DG090-004010/011-) which is situated amongst 26 penitential cairns (DG090-004012-) all of which are approximately 60m W of Hugh Mac Brick's Church (DG090-004001-). Only the lower courses of the drystone wall (H 1m; wall T 0.8m) of a roughly circular shaped hut site (int. dims. 1.6m x 1.2m) survives with possible doorway now destroyed facing W.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 05 July 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.