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Promontory fort

Promontory fort, coastal

What is recorded here

Doon Point still casts its shadow across Ferriter’s Cove, but the smaller headland beside it may have worn its own hidden ring. A narrow ditch and faint bank suggest the place was cut off from the mainland, perhaps a quiet chamber where people watched the sea or kept what they valued from strangers. The land has since become fertile pasture, yet the old line remains beneath the grass, waiting for rain or memory to draw it out again.
Possible promontory fort described in 2002 as follows; ‘A small west-facing subrectangular headland immediately east of the large multivallate promontory fort at Doon Point juts out 20m into Ferriter’s Cove. It is flanked by a narrow chasm on the north, where a narrow sea-arch gives access to the adjacent land. The headland is not a true promontory. A modern Land Commission type earthen bank follows the cliff edge and crosses the adjacent headland to the north as well as the small headland. A narrow ditch that served as material for this bank runs along the western side of this bank. Running across the headland in question is a 7m wide fosse east of the bank, suggesting that the area may have been cut off from the mainland by a fosse and possibly a bank / wall in the past. The interior shows signs of previous cultivation and the remains of a low perimeter bank are still intermittently visible. The area is one of fertile pasture' (Casey 2002, 22, no. F.).

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