What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human inventions, often built by ordinary people and later renamed because they refused to explain themselves without magic. In Curraghomongan, a low stone ring sits on a slight rise above the River Finn, its wall reduced to a thin line beneath field clearance stones. The name suggests wonder rather than facts, but the stones still mark a boundary drawn by human hands.

Internal diam. 18.5m. A badly damaged site which appears to be the remains of a cashel covered with field clearance stones. It is situated on a slight rise and the extant enclosing wall survives .25m high. It is located on a S facing slope N of the River Finn. 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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