Satellite Imagery
Satellite Imagery
HER: Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG089-019001 (None)
NMR: DG 089 (None)
SM: None
NGR: None
X: 549713 Y: 879545 (IRENET95)
This possible coastal promontory, marked as 'The Doon' on the second edition OS six-inch map is located at Trabane, 0.7km S of Maglin Beg, Co. Donegal. It is an irregular S-facing headland of c. 2ha overall that projects S from the mainland at an altitude of 29m OD. Lacey notes that the narrow neck of land that connects it to the mainland on the N is traversed by a valley/fosse/ditch, but without evidence of a bank (1983, 230); a subsequent note in Archaeological Survey Database of the National Monuments Service, however, records a low bank 1.5m wide by 0.2m high, flanked by a ditch on the N 1m wide by 0.2m deep, drawn across the headland on the landward side of the neck over a distance of about 50m and suggested that this may have been the outermost enclosing element of the promontory. There were a number of 'huts' (DG089-019002) on the promontory but these were removed at the beginning of the 20th century (ibid., 230). The interior is now flat grassland sloping to the E with evidence of cultivation ridges.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Unconfirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Unconfirmed
X: -977319 Y: 7296457 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -8.779409248421146 Latitude: 54.66156069713155 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Republic of Ireland
Current County or Unitary Authority: Donegal
Historic County: Donegal
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Maglin Beg
None
| Extant | ✗ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
Formerly cultivated in rigs
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
This possible coastal promontory forms an irregular S-facing headland of c. 2ha that projects S from the mainland at an altitude of 29m OD. It is approached by a narrow neck of land from the N, which is traversed by what Lacey describes as a 'valley/fosse/ditch', but without any evidence of a bank (1983, 230).
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✓ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✗ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✓ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: S-facing promontory
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✓ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 29.0m
N/A
There is no dating available for the site
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
The site is marked as 'The Doon' on the second edition OS six-inch map. Surveyed during the early 1980s for the compilation of the archaeological inventory of Co. Donegal (Lacy 1983).
| Earthwork Survey (1983): | Brian Lacey |
| Other (2009): | Visit noted in Archaeological Survey Database of the National Monuments Service |
There were a number of 'huts' (DG089-019002) on the promontory but these were removed from the promontory at the beginning of this century (ibid., 230).
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
NO APPARENT FEATURES
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
There are no recorded entrances to the site.
| 0: | None |
| 2: | The only access is from the N |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
Lacey describes that the approaching narrow neck of land is approached by a narrow neck of land traversed by a valley/fosse/ditch but there is no sign of any bank (1983, 230). Subsequent visit identified a low bank and ditch crossing the headland on the landward side of the neck
| Area 1: | 1.2ha. |
| Total: | 1.2ha. |
Total Footprint Area: 2.0ha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | None |
| NE Quadrant: | 0 |
| SE Quadrant: | 0 |
| SW Quadrant: | 0 |
| NW Quadrant: | 0 |
| Total: | 0 |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✓ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | It cannot be confirmed whether the feature described by Lacey is a ditch. |
Number of Ditches: 1
| ✗ | None |
Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford
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