What is recorded here
Doory holds a forgotten chamber where human anger or love may have first shaped the earth. Its low bank still circles the field, though grass and time have swallowed the entrance. The fairies took what people forgot, not what people failed to see. They finish the shapes that leaving behind completes.
On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 52m N-S; c. 49m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.6m; H 0.2-0.4m) with traces of a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.2m), which are identifiable only at S and from WSW-W-NW. The bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from NE-E-SSW. The original entrance is not recognisable. The ground level of the interior rises appreciably from the bank towards the centre. A scarp (H 0.5-0.6m) extends for a short distance to the W of the centre and then northwards towards the bank. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an irregularly shaped stony area, of unknown significance, at the centre. It is densely overgrown with scrub.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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