What is recorded here

Donaghmore held a rare double-ring fort on a gravel ridge, its outer wall flaring twenty metres north before field boundaries swallowed the remainder. The inner circle still rises one and a half metres above the flat valley, offering unbroken views in every direction. Quarrying and roadworks have since torn away much of that visibility, leaving behind a truncated platform rather than a complete dwelling. What remains is enough to show that the site was built to be seen, defended and remembered.

On a gravel ridge on a flat valley floor with good views in all directions. The 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map suggests that this was a bivallate enclosure, with the outer enclosing element being close and largely concentric with the inner enclosure to the E-S-WSW, and becoming wider from W-N-E, extending c. 20m N of the inner enclosure. The N half of this outer enclosure appears to have been incorporated in the field boundaries. The inner enclosure, appears to have been a roughly circular platform (max. diam. c. 42-47m; H 1.8m) with traces of a slight earthen bank and remains of an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.8m) at E. By 1987 the W half of the inner enclosure had been destroyed by quarrying and the S sector had been damaged by a roadway. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 November 2018

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