
What is recorded here
Drumaville Fairy Fort is a vanished ring on rocky bog edge, remembered only through a faint bank and a old map line. It is the kind of place humans may have circled, marked, or avoided before the land took back the shape. What is left is not a monument but a suggestion, a thin trace that the edge of the bog once held a boundary nobody has walked for a long time.
Very faint traces of a circular earthen bank suggest the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in rough rocky but level ground on the edge of a bog.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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