What is recorded here

Carn is a low, overgrown circle of stones on Donegal bog that men called Druid's Grave before surveyors drew it, because a slab-covered pit held burnt bones and two small pots when turf cutters broke through in the 1830s. The name may have been invention, but the dead person was real, and the grave outlived the story told about it.

This feature, named 'Druid's Grave' on the original OS 6-inch map (1834-5), is a round cairn in which a large cist containing a human skeleton and two small pottery vessels were found in around 1830 (OS Name Book, 1834; Fagan 1845-8; Waddell 1990, 70). A cairn c. 12m in diameter and 1m high is partly overgrown and disturbed. Turf cutting on the W side has revealed three revetment stones. An early report (Fagan Bk. 9, 6) records that an enclosed grave 6ft to 7ft in length made with stone slabs and covered by a slab 6ft 3in long was found in the 1830's. The cist contained pulverised earth and calcined bones. The cairn is located on a low rise in an area of blanket bog with a lot of rock outcrop. 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

Round cairn, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in the discovery of a human skeleton and pottery vessels, providing evidence of burial practices in the region.

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