Doongonmoyle Stone Fort Site — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Doongonmoyle and Doongonigle are two names for one lost coast, a small cashel with a lofty wall that vanished before Kinahan could trace it. What remains is a narrow promontory on Mulroy Bay, cut by a bank and fosse so natural it may never have been built at all. The woods keep the difference between human pride and fairy trickery, and the tide erases whichever answer you give.

Kinahan (1889, 278) recorded the 'ruin of a cashel' having a small diameter with a lofty wall at a place called 'Doongonmoyle'. Neither the place nor the cashel could be traced. Nearby, however, at a place called Doongonigle, the narrowest portion of a promontory is cut by an apparently natural arrangement which suggests a bank and fosse. This is a heavily wooded area on the shore of Mulroy Bay. 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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