Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ardpattan And Twomilestone, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardpattan And Twomilestone
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.53206, -8.17547
- SMR number
- DG107-004001-
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
In pasture, situated on the N crest of Twomilestone ridge. This enclosure was first recorded in 1981 by the Archaeological Survey of Donegal but was not included in their published survey. It is recorded as D-shaped area (12.46m N−S; 8.16m E−W) ‘formed by the digging out of a hollow c. 0.62m in depth, and lined with boulders' (av. dims. H 0.67m; Wth 0.36-0.46m) on the curving E half. The straight side of the enclosure at W is defined by a drystone field wall. The interior of the enclosure is uneven and slopes from E down to W, ‘with a rock step running N−S through it.’ The antiquity of the enclosure is uncertain; the possibility is noted that it might be associated with a ruined vernacular settlement located to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 July 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.