What is recorded here
Dromagarraun holds a broken ring on a marshy ridge, its shallow trench now stealing rain for nearby fields. The earth bank still marks a small enclosed life, though trees have taken the north-west quarter and water has softened every angle. Any person who stood inside that circle has vanished, leaving only a line of soil and the quiet certainty that the land remembered the shape before people forgot the name.
On slight rise, in undulating marshy pasture. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8m) W->NE and defined by scarped edge (H 1.1m; Wth 4m) NE->W, with external fosse around entire circumference. Fosse has recently been widened and deepened to act as part of field drain system WNW->SSE. Elsewhere it is shallow (D 0.4m; Wth 3.7m) and waterlogged. Field boundary and drain skirt fosse at E and S. Interior is level and under grass, but with trees covering NW quadrant.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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