What is recorded here

Killasteever Old Burial Ground is a wedge-shaped, stone-walled enclosure on a pasture slope above Loughros Beg Bay in County Donegal. It appears on old maps as an graveyard, yet no buried remains or marked graves are visible today. The stones still draw a narrow chamber in the grass, suggesting people once set that boundary deliberately before the field swallowed the memory.

The 'Old Graveyard' or 'Burial Ground' marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps survives as a wedge-shaped, stone-walled enclosure. There is no evidence of its former use. It is located on fairly good pasture on a slope S of the shore of Loughros Beg Bay. 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

Wedge tomb; likely dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its survival as a stone-walled enclosure offers insight into early funerary practices in the region.

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