What is recorded here

Half a kilometre north of Dough Castle, a 34-metre ring of earth and stone rises two metres above the marsh where spring tides still crawl across the grass. It is the kind of place people built when water was a neighbour rather than a threat, a small dry room set inside a drowning landscape. Westropp called it a possible crannoge in 1905, and that doubt is the point: the mound may have been a home, a refuge or a marker, but it was made deliberately in country that resists forgetting.

In marshy estuarine grassland c. 40m N of the confluence of the SW-flowing Dealagh and W-flowing Inagh rivers, in an area labelled ‘Covered by Spring Tides’ on the OS 25-inch map (1897), and overlooked by higher ground on all sides. Hachured as a raised subcircular area on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. Noted by Westropp (1905, 360): ‘To the north of the castle [‘Dough Castle’ (CL015-089002-), c. 470m to S] and creek is a furze-covered knoll in a marsh, which may be a crannoge.’ A densely overgrown, roughly circular earth and stone mound (base diam. c. 34m; surface diam. 19m; H 2m) is defined by a gentle scarp. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 7-10-2025

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