Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carricknahorna, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carricknahorna
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.53792, -8.10055
- SMR number
- DG104-019----
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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, in hilly limestone terrain, located on a spur of elevated ground defined at W-NW by a fall of ground into a wet, boggy valley. Subcircular or broadly oval area (20m E-W; 16.5m N-S) defined by remnants of a wall or bank which is evident as a barely discernible, grass-covered rise. There is a break (Wth 4-5m) at SSE–S. At SW–W the bank/wall coincides with the break of slope at the edge of the ridge where the ground slopes down into the valley. At NW it appears to be overlain by a later, now ruined, field wall. A cashel (DG104-009----) is located 240m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.