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Faha
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0669
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0669 (669)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Begagh
- Latitude
- 52.23788
- Longitude
- -10.24050
- Altitude
- 820 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 13.32 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 7.56 ha, 13.32 ha
- Footprint
- 13.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and wall-walk
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE034-048
- National record
- record KE 034
- Wikidata
- Q31082142
Sources
References
- Cuppage, J. 1986. Corca Dhuibhne: Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, Dublin.
- MacDonogh, S. 1985. A Visitor's Guide to the Dingle Peninsula. Mount Eagle Publications, Dingle.
- Redmond, M. 1999. A survey of the promontory forts of the Kerry Peninsulas. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society. 28. 5 - 63.