Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Srath Bruithne íochtarach, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Srath Bruithne íochtarach
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.63595, -8.55917
- SMR number
- DG096-029----
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
On low flat bog-covered marshy land in mountain valley with higher ground to NW and nearby river stream located 130m to SE. Possible stone circle (DG096-030) located 370m to NE. Circle appears to have been uncovered in an area of cut away bog when local people were cutting turf in this area over the last 200 years. The circle is incomplete and appears to have consisted of numerous stones (approx. 41 ) forming a large circular area (diam. 15m N-S). The circle is best preserved from S to W where the low orthostats protruding above the surface of the ground measure an average height of 0.5m x length 0.7m. There is a single tall standing stone (H 1.4m x 0.9m x 0.25m) at ESE which may be the remains of an entrance stone. This stone is orientated on a NW-SE axis.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.