Field boundary

The National Monuments Service's description

Located at the NE end of Twomilestone ridge. First recorded by Davies (1942, 102, site ‘i’) who described the following feature: ‘At ‘i’, in a marshy hollow, are two rough blocks of weathered sandstone 1 ft. 11 ins. apart. The eastern is roughly pointed, the western flat-topped. They have no obvious purpose and are not in a field-wall.’ The two stones were recorded in the Archaeological Survey of County Donegal (Lacy et al. 1983, 154, no. 925) as follows: ‘Two very weathered blocks of limestone situated at the bar of the ridge, at its E end. These are possibly the remains of an old field boundary standing .58m apart, both are .9m in height. Isolated stones c. 300m to the SW may also have been incorporated originally in a field boundary.’ The location of the stones as shown on Davies’s map (1942, 99) places them at the base of the NE end of the ridge. An inspection of the area was undertaken in 2015 but no trace of the stones was found. It seems likely that the two stones were removed during land reclamation.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of revised upload: 20 July 2016

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.

Davies, O. 1942 The Twomile stone, a prehistoric community in County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 72, 98-105.