Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Cashelard, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashelard
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghacurragh, Giants Grave (1907)
- Coordinates
- 54.52585, -8.09530
- SMR number
- DG108-001----
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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
This was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is marked at a position c. 40m NW of and across the road from that shown on the 1907 edition of the map. There is no trace of an ancient feature at either location. Thomas Fagan (1845-8), who described it as the ruins of a 'Giant's Grave', found three large prostrate stones here in 1847. They measured, on average, 91/2 feet (c. 2.9m) long, 4-7 feet (c. 1.2-2.15m) wide and 11/2 feet (c. 0.45m) thick. He was informed that they had stood until around 1830, when they were dislodged by people said to have been searching for treasure. Human bones were reportedly unearthed during the search.
Fagan 1845-8, book 17, 8; OS 1:2, 500 Name Book, sheet 108 (1905), 2; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 47, no. 147; SMR 1987, 108:1; RMP 1995, 108:1.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.