Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Doire Leathan, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Leathan
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.63008, -8.62132
- SMR number
- DG096-039----
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
Mass rock built into the S face of rock outcrop with good views to the S. Monument consists of a flat slab (L 0.85m ; Wth 0.55m) resting on top of a dry stone wall (H 0.6m) surviving three courses high to form a low altar which is known locally as a mass rock (pers. comm. Sean O'Beirne). The altar has been built into the S side of a rock face with good views of Teelin Bay to the SW.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 29 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.