What is recorded here

Lackagh Enclosure is a subrectangular grassy basin on a rocky Donegal ridge, its low sod-covered wall still marking a boundary the official maps never bothered to draw. The south arc leans against the rising slope while the north edge frays into narrow breaks, suggesting people once entered and left without building a grand gate. It overlooks Gweebarra Bay and Inishkeel Island, waiting for someone to imagine what was kept inside, whether livestock, tools, memory or a small private world.

In pasture, located on a terrace on a rocky ridge overlooking Gweebarra Bay, with Portnoo beach and Inishkeel Island visible to SE. It is overlooked immediately to S−NW by rising ground, broken by rock outcropping. To N the ground slopes away for c. 100m then drops steeply to a rocky shoreline. This enclosure is not shown on the OS 6-inch maps, although the curving field wall which skirts its W side is depicted. Subrectangular area (24.4m E−W; 21m N−S), with rounded corners, defined by a sod-covered stone bank/wall (Wth 1.6-1.8m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.6-0.65m at E and W), which incorporates large stones and boulders, now largely concealed by sod. The wall appears more substantial on the W side where it is incorporated into a later, now ruined, field wall which extends beyond the enclosure to N and S. On the S arc the wall is built against the rising ridge slope, giving it a pronounced internal slope (int. H 1m) and a very low external lip (ext. H 0.1m). On the E side, where ground falls away gently, the wall is low internally and has a broadly slumped external slope. The wall is rather low (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) and broken down at N, where there are a few narrow eroded breaks (Wth c. 1m), but no clearly defined entrance gap. The interior is level and grassy. Attached images: DG064-028----_01.JPG Enclosure viewed from W DG064-028----_02.JPG Enclosure viewed from NE DG064-028----_03.JPG Enclosing wall at S DG064-028----_04.JPG Enclosing wall at E Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 July 2021

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