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Doonarah

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin and c. 15m SE of a farmhouse. It is depicted as a circular hachured feature described in gothic lettering as 'Doonarah' only on the 1911 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular platform (diam. 30.5m) defined by a scarp (H 1m). A hedge grows on the perimeter and the site is now used as an orchard, but there is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE028-052

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Fifiheavey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791; Ledwich, Edward, 1738-1823, continuator, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 2.5
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