What is recorded here
That is the end of every game. The chamber is a place where the boy learns the shape of the end, not a warning about never returning. The chamber is a small circle, shallow as a breath, with a floor like a coin and a roof like a coin turned downward. The boy is not in a room. The boy is the shape of the room. The chamber is the end of every game. The chamber is a small circle, shallow as a breath, with a floor like a coin and a roof like a coin turned downward. The boy is not in a room. The boy is the shape of the room. The chamber is the end of every game.
Internal diam. c. 26m. Originally a roughly circular area which is now truncated by a laneway at the N end. The enclosing wall is barely visible. It is situated in fair pasture to the S of the Owentocker river basin.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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