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House - indeterminate date

Rockhill (Cavangarden ED), County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Rockhill, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rockhill (Cavangarden ED)
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.57469, -8.10703
SMR number
DG103-090002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, located on a terrace bordered on N side by a low rocky scarp (H 1-1.5m) which drops to a flat expanse of rush-grown ground stretching 100m N to the banks of a river. To S ground rises gradually in a series of limestone terraces. There is a spring well c. 10m to W at the base of the rocky scarp. This possible house consists of a flat rectangular area (8m ESE/WSW; 6.5m) defined by a sod-covered stone bank/wall. The stone bank (Wth c. 1-1.5m; H 0.3-0.6m) is relatively well preserved on the on E, S and W sides, and is particularly substantial on the SW corner which it shares with the NE corner of a small rectangular enclosure (DG103-090003-). The N side of the house coinciding with the rocky scarp at the terrace edge, and here the enclosing wall is poorly preserved, with a shallow depression (2.8m E-W; 1m N-S) evident on its inner edge. There is a gap (Wth 0.8m) to S of centre in the E wall. A cave adapted to serve as a souterrain (DG103-090001-) underlies the possible house and the enclosure. Two circular enclosures (DG103-088----; DG103-089----) are located upslope 100m to SW and 70m to SSW, respectively.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 November 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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