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Druminderry Chambered Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

What is recorded here

Colhoun (1949) recorded a 'multiple-chambered cairn' in this townland. The site referred to is that listed in the heading. This is a small heap of stones c. 6m in diameter and 1.25m high (Lacy 1983). Colhoun 1949, 116 ('Druminderry'); Lacy 1983, 60, no. 251; SMR 1987, 29:14; Colhoun 1995, 67-8; RMP 1995, 29:14. 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
Chambered cairn; Neolithic period. Its multiple chambers suggest it was a significant communal burial or ritual site.

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