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Structure in Dooneen

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Dooneen holds a subrectangular chamber, six metres long and four across, built against the south-west edge of a possible rath. Its low bank, barely twenty centimetres high, still marks the north and south sides, suggesting a deliberate room rather than a random heap of earth. Perhaps someone carved a private workspace, a shrine or a storage pit inside the larger ancient boundary. The exact purpose has faded, but the shape remains clear enough to show that the landscape was still being shaped long after the first hands laid it out.
This subrectangular structure (int. dims. 5.9m NW-SE; 3.8m NE-SW) has been built against the enclosing element of a possible rath (GA022-122----) at SW. It is defined by traces of a low bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.17m; ext. H 0.15m) most clearly evident along the N and S sides. It may be associated with the rath. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 May 2017

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