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Kildoney Glebe Fairy Fort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Kildoney Glebe Fairy Fort
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Doonfort is a wide earthen ring on a Donegal cliff edge, dropping twenty metres to the beach below. Its natural mound rose higher when people cut the surrounding fosse, creating a steep-sided platform where unknown hands may have built rooms now blurred into hollows. The fort still overlookes the sea like a forgotten watchtower, waiting for someone to remember why it was shaped.
Internal diam. 16m N-S, 36m E-W. 'Doonfort' consists of a mainly natural mound surrounded by a fosse and slight indications of an outer bank. The height of the mound may have been increased from the digging of the fosse. There are numerous rises and hollows on the top of the mound many of which represent modern interference but some possibly indicating original structures. It is located on a cliff edge dropping 20m to the beach below. A holed stone at the SW of the mound is a modern feature.

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