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Hut site

Lurgan, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Lurgan, 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
Lurgan
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.55115, -8.15619
SMR number
DG103-095----

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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 spine of rocky ground on top of a N–S limestone ridge. The precipitous E-facing slope of the ridge lies 20m to E. This small circular feature is barely discernible at ground level, and its date and function are uncertain. It consists of a roughly circular area (6m N–S; 5m E–W) defined on the perimeter at NNE–NNW by a very low, moss-covered rise (Wth 0.6-1m; H 0.2m) which appears to be the remnants of a stone bank or wall. The interior is flat and grass-covered but feels stony underfoot and appears to incorporate expanses of natural limestone bedrock: it is located on a broad seam of limestone bedrock that continues to N and S beyond the hut site. There is a possible enclosure (DG103-094----) 30m to N and a hillfort (DG103-072----) 50m to N, and a possible cairn (DG103-032----) 60m to S.

Attached image:
DG103-095----_01.JPG

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 18 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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