Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Tawnyvorgal, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnyvorgal
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.69873, -8.06325
- SMR number
- DG094-003----
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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
A supposed 'dolmen...said to consist of a massive cap stone supported by pillar stones', incorrectly assigned to the townland of Friary (Anon. 1952), comprises three prone slabs, the largest almost 3m in maximum dimension and lying on the two others, in the adjoining townland of Tawnyvorgal. Although it cannot be ruled out that these are the remains of a collapsed structure, there is at present no good reason to suppose that there was a megalithic tomb here.
Anon. 1952, 430; SMR 1987, 94:3; RMP 1995, 94:3.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.