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Doonties Commons (Coimên Nd–Nta)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1258
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1258 (1258)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doonties Commons
- Latitude
- 52.10938
- Longitude
- -10.19632
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.9 ha
- Footprint
- 2.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1893); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE053-085001
- National record
- record KE 053
- Wikidata
- Q31082310
Sources
References
- Cuppage, J. et al. 1986. Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula. Ballyferriter
- Dean, T.N. 1893. A report on ancient monuments in Co. Kerry. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 19, 100-107.
- 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