Townland of Ballylawn
Area: 746 acres
Irish Name: Baile lán Meaning - The Town of Plenty
Spelling Variations: none
Squire's Cairn (Megalithic?)
Almost at top of Crockavishane. Continue on road passing Cooly Cross
for about 2 miles. Just past the row of houses called The Colonies,
leave road, climb uphill to W., till site is reached on plateau
at E. end of ridge. Mountain moorland. Except for top of hill, good
view across Foyle to Londonderry and Antrim coast and Scotland on
E. and N. Malin Peninsula and Atlantic Ocean on three sides. This
is locally called Square Cairn though it is circular. The top part
appears to have been added quite recently, possibly bearing witness
to a quite common custom that people visiting a cairn place a stone
on it - a votive offering or a folk memory perhaps, from the time
of tomb-builders, when stones were brought and laid on it, possibly
either as part of a religious ceremony or merely as a method of
construction. It is interesting to note that the slated houses,
each in its own grounds, were planted by settlers from Fermanagh,
and are called The Colonies or The Slate Row. One mountain road,
becoming a track, leads S.W. When at the cairn many old disused
roads can be traced along the tops and sides of some of the mountains.
Measurements:
Height at N.E. to top of partly grass covered original cairn
Height at N.E. to top of present cairn
Diameter N - S to presumed edge of cairn |
5 ft. 6 ins.
8 ft. 6 ins.
27 ft. |
Standing Stone (Megalithic)
This site is in Craigleet district. For direction approach from
the Colonies. Arable. Good View. This stone was removed last year.
Its site was pointed out to me from a distance, so the exact position
is uncertain, but it is in a large field N.E. of a group of houses
in Craigleet.
Taken from The Heritage of Inishowen by Mabel R. Colhoun
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