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the fort measures about 170' in diameter. The
defences are almost entirely overgrown with
shrubs and bushes and consequently much
obscured.
Kirkcolm Par. [Parish] Dally Fort or The Doonan of Dally.
About 1/4 m [mile] SW. [South West] of Dally and to the N. [North] of where
the Dally burn runs into the sea is a long
narrow flat topped rock rising to a height of
20' to 30' and terminating abruptly above the
low rocks which run out on the shore. At
the W. [West] or seaward end a small portion of
the rock is disconnected by a road said
to have been cut through it by Major Ross
of Airies who employed some men of the
Sutherland Fencibles, disbanded after the
Irish Rebellion. On this promontory
a fort has been formed by digging a trench
across it at a point where it suddenly
narrows to a width of about 50' some 200'
from its termination. In rear of the trench
has been erected a mound some 25' in thick:
:ness at base and now at the highest about
5' in height, within an inner mound now
reduced to a trifling elevation, some 10' in rear of it.
The average width of the area of the fort
is about 60' and its length within the
defences about 140'. There is a break through
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