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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Doorus

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mud and stone still hold the shape of a room never built, waiting for bodies large enough to fill it. The western cairn marks the point where human smallness stops and architecture begins. Doorus does not preserve a dead farm, it caches an instruction: build until the build disappears.
On a slight rise in level grassland. This subcircular rath (37m E-W; 34m N-S) is defined by a bank of earth and stone. The bank varies in width from 4m E to 9.5m at S and 10m at NW where field-clearance material has been piled against it. Traces of inner stone-facing at visible at S. The interior is featureless apart from a small circular cairn (diam. 2m) in the W half of the interior which may be associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2017

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