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Designed landscape - folly

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
54.64862, -8.69506
SMR number
DG090-014----

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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

Located on top of Slieve League with panoramic views in all directions with a cluster of penitential cairns (DG090-004012-) and three hut sites (DG090-004009/10/011-) located 250m to the NE. This corbelled hut site is a replica hut site that was recently constructed based on the design of the nearby hut sites (pers. comm. G Curran 29 June 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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