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Doonmanagh (Dún Meánach)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1245
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1245 (1245)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doonmanagh
- Latitude
- 52.11928
- Longitude
- -10.14763
- Altitude
- 2 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.05 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE054-084
- National record
- record KE 054
- Wikidata
- Q31082273
Sources
References
- O'Sullivan, A and Sheehan, J. 1996. Iveragh Peninsula: An Archaeological Survey of South Kerry. Cork University Press. Cork
- Redmond, M. 1995. A survey of the promontory forts of the Kerry peninsulas. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 28, 5-63.