Temple of Deen: Culdaff
Taken from Inishowen. A Journey Through Its Past by Neil McGrory

Just across the main road from Bocan Stone Circle is the "Temple of Deen." A wedge-tomb, it appears to have been covered with a cairn of small boulders which means that the structure remaining would have been only the centre chamber of a huge monument. Since no proper excavation has ever taken place at either Deen or Bocan it is difficult to figure out whether these monuments were constructed at the same time or by the same people. However, it would seem from the experience elsewhere that they were constructed by the same race but possibly at distinct periods (sometime during the Bronze Age.) But what seems likely is that their proximity and records of less notable monuments in the same area would suggest that this area was important or significant in spiritual terms for the people of that day.

The Temple of Deen is approximately 2km from the village of Culdaff and is situated on top of the low hill of Deen, which is on the opposite side of the road to the Bocan Stone Circle (one is clearly visible from the other). Just a few metres past the road taken to get to the Stone Circle in the direction of Moville, there is a dirt tract to the right. The monument stands in a field to the right approximately a half km along this dirt track.

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