What is recorded here

Donaghmore Lower holds a broad earthen ring above the river flood plain, its steep bank and outer ditch still marking a circular space where people once lived, watched the water, or kept what they valued. The western ditch has softened and the interior has filled with grass, but the shape remains clear enough to invite imagination. Maybe it was a home, a boundary, or a place where the ordinary world thinned into fairy belief.

On a natural terrace above a river flood plain and below higher uplands, in gently rolling, cultivated grassland. There is a fair view in all directions. A roughly circular area (diam. 26m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by steep wide flat-topped earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H c. 1.7m; ext. H c. 2.04m) and wide external fosse (Wth 4-5m; D c. 1m), which is poorly preserved in the W sector. There is an entrance in the N sector but it is possibly modern. The interior is overgrown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 January 2018

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