What is recorded here

Doonkelly holds a forgotten ringfort where Doon hill drops into shadow. It is a subcircular grassy area about forty-four metres across, marked by a low stone spread and earthen bank that fade along one edge. The shape is broad enough to have held a house, yards and living people, yet no entrance remains clear. What is certain is that the hillside still carries the made boundary, and what is missing is the life that moved through it.

Marked only on the OS 25-inch map of 1870 as a hachured curved line (C c. 30m) N-E-S, and located towards the bottom of the steep S and SE-facing slope of the prominent Doon hill. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 44m NW-SE; c. 34m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.9-4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.65m) SW-N-SE, merging into an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.25m) at N, and reduced to a slight scarp E-S. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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