What is recorded here

Doonagappul is a lost promontory fort on Clare Island where a cliff swallowed a hut and a field bank before human memory faded. Westropp sketched the remaining oval in 1911, but the sea has since taken back the place where that sketch pointed.

Situated c. 15m outside and to NE of the defences of ‘Doonagappul’ promontory fort (MA085-015001-). The house lay right on the northern cliff edge, close to the present degraded earthen field bank that traverses the landward (eastern) end of the promontory. Described by Westropp (1911a, 23) as the ‘faint trace of a ring, 30 feet [9.15m] north and south by about 24 feet [7.3m], probably a hut’. However, on his published plan (1911a) it is labelled as ‘house site’. It is shown thereon as an incomplete oval ring, the northern portion evidently already eroded by the cliff. His manuscript plan of the site (1911b, 272) also shows that the ‘hut’ was attached to western side of an old boundary running southwards across the promontory. No visible surface trace of any of these features survives, and a geophysical survey of the area failed to reveal any definite traces of them. The above description is derived from: New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 2007). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 29 November 2018

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