Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Drumbeagh (mountcharles Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbeagh (mountcharles Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- A wooden house excavated in 1830
- Coordinates
- 54.65516, -8.22059
- SMR number
- DG093-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Mudge (1836, 361-7) records the finding of a 'wooden house' buried in the bog here. The 'house' was 12ft square by 9ft in height, and divided about halfway by a second floor making two separate rooms, each room being 'four feet high in the clear'. It was not clear from the report what the date of the structure might be. It was located on rising ground covered with deep deposits of peat.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.