Cairn - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

Killanin and Duignan (1962; 1967) refer to a 'chambered cairn' in this townland. The feature is a grass-grown mound or cairn c. 15m in diameter and up to 1m high. An OS trigonometrical pillar has been built on it. The nature of any structure that the mound may cover is not known. The mound stands toward the NE edge of an embanked enclosure [DG103-072001-] c. 35m in diameter, and both are within a great D-shaped enclosure [DG103-072----] measuring c. 340m N-S by c. 200m E-W. This great enclosure is delimited at the E by a steep natural escarpment and elsewhere by the collapsed remains of a stone wall that curves around the top of the hill. It appears to be a hillfort, although it has been suggested (G.P. and O.D. 1942) that it is a Neolithic enclosure. (Patterson and Davies 1942, 137; Deery 1948, 101 ('Lurgan Cairn'); Davies and Evans 1961-2, 4; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 78; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 89; Lacy 1983, 148-9, no. 886).

The above description is derived from the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

Updated by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 3 November 2014

References

Lacy, B. with Cody, E., Cotter, C., Cuppage, J., Dunne, N., Hurley, V., O'Rahilly, C., Walsh, P. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century A.D. Lifford. Donegal County Council.

Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1962 Shell Guide to Ireland. London. Ebury Press.

Deery, H. 1948 Rambles in Drumholm. Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society 1, no. 2, 99-106.

Patterson, G. and Davies, O. 1942 Book review. Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 3rd series 5, 134-7.

Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.