Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Twomilestone, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Twomilestone
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.53144, -8.17077
- SMR number
- DG107-004003-
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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 the S-facing slope of Twomilestone ridge, just to N of the boundary of Twomilestone with Tullymore townland. This possible hut site was first recorded by Davies (1942, 99-100). He designated it ‘hut a’, and described it as a roughly rectangular hut which had ‘walls partly revetted with orthostatic slabs’ and ‘measured internally about 10 x 8 ft. [c. 3m x 2.5m]’. Inspected in 2015, the outline of a subrectangular area (c. 3-3.5m N−S; c. 2-2.5m E−W) is evident, defined by low, upright moss-covered stones which protrude 0.2-0.4m above the ground. It is incorporated into the NW side of a semi-circular field plot or small enclosure (c. 14m E−W; c. 10m N−S), largely obscured by scrub, which is defined on the curving side by a ruined, moss-covered field wall (Wth 1.6m; H 0.2-0.3m), and bordered on the straight S side by an extant field wall/property boundary coinciding with the townland boundary between Twomilestone and Tullymore. Another low ruined field wall extends from the N edge of the possible hut site on a sinuous course to N and NNW. These field boundaries are part of a relict field system (DG103-057001-) which traverses the ridge.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 July 2016
References
Davies, O. 1942 The Twomile stone, a prehistoric community in County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 72, 98-105.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.