What is recorded here
Doon rises in Bonamargy as a fortified outcrop, its stones still angled against the sky like a broken shoulder of the earth. The exact age has slipped from human memory, but the shape has not: a ridge made defensible, perhaps by people who understood that visibility is the first warning and the last defense. It does not explain itself. It waits, solid and unnamed, for someone strong enough to stand beside it and remember what strength feels like from the inside.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as FORTIFIED OUTCROP: DOON. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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