1969:009 - CROAGHBEG, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: CROAGHBEG

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: L.N.W. Flanagan, Ulster Museum

Site type: Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)

ITM: E 564853m, N 874812m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.620320, -8.544183

First season’s work consisted mainly of clearance of walls and bracken. This showed that this was an exceptionally well preserved tomb. This clearance also showed that there was in the arms of the fore court at least one subsidiary chamber.