Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Mucros (tc An Leargaidh Mhór), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mucros (tc An Leargaidh Mhór)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.61640, -8.58228
- SMR number
- DG096-026----
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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 field known as Kilbane burial ground. There is now no surface indication of its nature. Bones and gravemarkers are said to have been found here in the past (DRS); located on grassland with rougher land nearby. This possible burial ground or field known locally as 'Kilbane' appears to have consisted of a square-shaped area (dims. 19m x 18.5m) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank. On the first edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map this square-shaped area does not exist and this field along with the adjoining field to the E is shown as a D-shaped area which may have been the enclosing element of the graveyard known locally as 'Kilbane'.
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.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 01 July 2010
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.