Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Finner, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finner
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Flahertys Stone (1953–4)
- Coordinates
- 54.48818, -8.26021
- SMR number
- DG106-006002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A circular platform (DG106-006001-) surrounded by a fosse and an outer bank. Internally near the SW edge is a recumbent stone, probably a fallen standing stone 1.25m × 0.3m which gives the monument its name of “Flahertys Stone”. Macalister (1949, 120) claimed to have read the inscription 'Liatach' on this stone. The platform, known as 'Finner Rath', is largely natural being the top of a small hill. Modern field fences run through the site. It is situated in good land but close to sand dunes.
Killanin and Duignan (1962; 1967) describe a site on Finner Hill, known as Flaherty's Stone', as a chambered cairn. It is a ringfort (DG106-006001-) within which is a prostrate slab, possibly a fallen standing stone.
Killanin and Duignan 1962, 114; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 127; Lacy 1983, 173, no. 1043 (plan); SMR 1987, 106:6; RMP 1995, 106:6.
No Archaeological Features
Excavation Licence No. 00E0369
No archaeological features were identified from 27 test trenches undertaken by Gerry Walsh in the vicinity of the ringfort.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.