What is recorded here

Clear water flowed through the chamber, feeding the hall and helping the living. The chamber was a chamber of life, not a chamber of death. The fort stood at the edge of the field, not hidden in rock or distance. People could reach it, use it and remember it without fearing what the edge might take.

The site is marked on both editions of the OS map as a circular enclosure and is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located a short distance S of Portmagee Channel, in the SE corner of a small field. Modern field banks bound the E and S limits of the site, which is defined elsewhere as a platform 1.25m high above surrounding ground level. It is approximately circular in plan, measuring 29.5m N-S x 30.5m E-W. Small, upright grave-markers, averaging .25m high, occur within its W half. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 997. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Doory, likely dating to the early medieval period, is a small circular enclosure traditionally associated with ancient Irish settlements. Locally known as a *ceallúnach*, such sites are often linked in folklore to the supernatural, particularly to the fairies or *Aos Sí*.

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