What is recorded here

Fairy forts like Dooally are common in Ireland, but the truth is simpler: people made them. The measurements are modest, yet the shape is deliberate. A circular boundary, a cut edge, a narrow ditch, and a clear interior suggest a home, pen, or boundary marker rather than a child's fantasy. The fairies enter later, when people stopped knowing the first hands that shaped the earth.

In level pasture. Circular area (29.3m N-S; 28.4m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 3m), with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2.15m) NNE->SW and W->NW. Drain runs along base of scarped edge NW->NNE. Interior level, damp and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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