Satellite Imagery
Satellite Imagery
HER: Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA009-003001 (None)
NMR: MA 009 (None)
SM: None
NGR: None
X: 464271 Y: 835535 (IRENET95)
This sea stack is situated just N of Port Point at an inlet marked as 'Doonaderg' on the first edition OS six-inch map (1839). Located directly NW of 'Port Glebe House' c. 6.8km from Belmullet, it was first described by Otway (1845), who noted that the site was named after a certain outlaw (Darrig) 'who lived in a recess in its platform'. He observed that it was 'a little promontory, lower than the rest of the cliff'...surrounded by 'a ditch or mound.. and there are traces of stone buildings and stone walls defending the mound' (1845, 65). Westropp noted that the site was inaccessible and overlooked by higher ground to the the SE, but measured exactly 45m long from E to W internally. An earthen bank c. 2.5m wide and 1.2m high is recorded on the SE, running for 29m along the SE margin of the stack, and satellite imagery suggests this returns along the NE and SW margins to enclose an area measuring about 40m from NW to SE by 29m transversely; The stack projects a further 40m NW, the grassy summit giving way to bare rock. Westropp noted no internal features other than 'bosses of sea-pink, nearly as high as the mounds' (1912, 209). The bank is clearly visib
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -1122418 Y: 7217767 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -10.082852501404204 Latitude: 54.25063294920597 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Republic of Ireland
Current County or Unitary Authority: Mayo
Historic County: Mayo
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Termoncarragh
None
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✗ |
None
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
This sea stack is situated just N of Port Point at an inlet marked as 'Doonaderg' on the first edition OS six-inch map (1839). Westropp noted that the site was innacessible and overlooked by higher ground to the the SE. An earthen bank is recorded to the SE, 1.2m high and c. 2.5m wide running along the landward side of the stack, a distance of approximately 29m.
| 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: The site is overlooked by higher ground to the SW
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✓ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 5.0m
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 |
Marked as 'Doonaderg' on the first edition OS six-inch map (1839). First described by Otway (1845) who noted that the site was named after a certain outlaw (Darrig) 'who lived in a recess in its platform'. He observed that it was 'a little promontory, lower than the rest of the cliff'...surrounded by 'a ditch or mound.. and there are traces of stone buildings and stone walls defending the mound' (1845, 65). Visited and surveyed by Westropp in 1912 who noted that much oft he remains described by Otway had disappeared.
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839): | OS six-inch mapping |
| 1st Identified Written Reference (1845): | Caesar Otway |
| Earthwork Survey (1912): | Thomas Westropp |
Otway (1845) noted traces of stone buildings within the interior of the site but these were not evident during Westropps survey (1912).
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 through the earthen bank. Westropp suggested that the site was accessed via a natural bridge which has since disappeared.
| 0: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
Westropp noted that the site was innacessible and overlooked by higher ground to the the SE and exactly 45m long EW internally. An earthen bank is recorded on the SE, measuring 2.5m wide by 1.2m high, and satellite imagery suggests this returns along the NE and SW margins.
| Area 1: | 0.18ha. |
| Total: | 0.18ha. |
Total Footprint Area: 0.23ha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | None |
| NE Quadrant: | 0 |
| SE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SW Quadrant: | 0 |
| NW Quadrant: | 0 |
| Total: | 1 |
| 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 |
| ✗ | None |
Number of Ditches: 0
| ✗ | None |
Westropp, T.J. 1912. The promontory forts and early remains of the coasts of County Mayo. Part 1- The north coast (Tirawley and Erris). The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 59-139.
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