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Doon West
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1270
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1270 (1270)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doon West
- Latitude
- 52.52077
- Longitude
- -9.67897
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE004-018
- National record
- record KE 004
- Wikidata
- Q31082516
Sources
References
- Toal, C. 1995. North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle