What is recorded here

Donore is a hidden ring, not a showoff castle. It keeps a circular boundary beneath the soil, perhaps thirty-five metres across, while O'Donovan found no remarkable fort at all. That absence makes the name louder: a place can remember a shape long after its walls stop answering questions.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 31) as cropmark of fosse enclosing circular area (est max. diam. c. 35m). Ring-ditch or ring-barrow. Faint cropmark of second site (CW016-103----) to SW. No visible surface traces. O'Donovan (OSL 1839, 93) mentions: 'I could find no remarkable moat or fort in Donore, from which the name might be said to have been taken. Several raheens in it were levelled.' This reference probably includes some of the Donore sites.

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