Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Point (dunkineely Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Point (dunkineely Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.57602, -8.44658
- SMR number
- DG097A003----
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
Internal diam. 21.8m. A circular area enclosed by an almost entirely collapsed stone wall. Very little facing survives. Wall width calculated at one point to the W may have been c. 1.55m. A collapsed wall extending from the W to the NNE divides the site internally. The rest of the interior is flat. The site is located on good pasture overlooking a marshy area to NNE on the end of St. John's point.
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
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.