What is recorded here
No visible entrance is marked, yet the north bank holds a two-metre gap that aligns with the slope and leaves the interior exposed to the changing weather. That openness may have been a choice, not a loss. A ringfort is not a complete circle in idea; it is a lived boundary, shaped by the land and the people moving through it. The missing south half does not weaken the place. It removes the false belief that understanding requires a finished form. What remains is enough to show that human life worked with uncertainty, not against it.
Internal diam. c. 40. Only the N half of the enclosing earthen bank of this feature survives. The bank which stands up to 2m high contains a fair amount of stone. It is heavily overgrown. Just E of N there is a 2m gap which may have been an entrance. The site is located on a level surface in good land but the ground begins to slope to the N.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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