
What is recorded here
Dooneen holds a hidden thirty-metre ring beneath an ordinary garden, erased from sight but still drawn on old maps. The fort disappeared into soil and forgetting, yet its shape survives in ink rather than earth. It is a ghost that refused to leave, waiting for someone to stop looking at the surface and start listening to the ground.
In a garden, to the E of a house. This rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1939 OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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