Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Lurgan, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgan
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.55302, -8.15713
- SMR number
- DG103-093----
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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
In pasture, located roughly in the centre of a hillfort (DG103-072----) on the top of a N–S limestone ridge. This possible house or small enclosure consists of a flat, circular area (10m N–S; 9.5m E–W) defined by a stone bank (Wth 1.5m). The stone bank is evident as a low, sod-covered rise from which occasional stones protrude. It is most clearly defined at N–NE where a slight drop in exterior ground level makes the external face of the stone bank (ext. H 0.65m) more pronounced. It is located on a plateau which forms a spine of relatively level ground extending N–S through the hillfort. The possible house is conjoined on its W side to a circular enclosure (DG103-092----). There is a larger circular enclosure (DG103-072----) 20m to N, within which there is a cairn (DG103-029----) marking the highest point of the ridge.
Attached image:
DG103-093----_01.JPG viewed from N
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 November 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.