What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Donegal is a circular burial ground twenty-six metres across, half-hidden by grass and cut in two by a modern field boundary. Its stone wall sits atop an older collapsed edge, suggesting people marked this spot long before the current fence. The valley slope remains quiet, but the layered walls imply death and memory once occupied the same ground now used for pasture.

The 'graveyard' marked on the OS 6-inch maps consists of a subcircular area 26m to 27m in diameter enclosed by a modern stone wall built on top of what appears to be an earlier collapsed wall. A modern field boundary running E-W divides the site in half. The site, which is located on the W slope of a small valley in good pasture, is heavily overgrown. 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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