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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
54.65011, -8.69203
SMR number
DG090-004011-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1702 map "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).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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 (DG090-004009/010-) 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 1m) of a roughly circular shaped hut site (int. dims. 2.7m x 1.8m) survives with possible doorway now destroyed facing W.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 05 July 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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