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Fahan/Fán (Dún Beg)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1283
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1283 (1283)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fahan/F_n
- Latitude
- 52.10353
- Longitude
- -10.40889
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 10
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and wall-walk
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); 1st Identified Written Reference (1848); Earthwork Survey (1856); Earthwork Survey (1910); Excavation (1977); Earthwork Survey (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE052-270001
- National record
- record KE 052
- Wikidata
- Q31082779
Sources
References
- Barry, T.B. 1981. Archaeological excavations at Dunbeg Promontory Fort, Co. Kerry, 1977. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 81, 295-329.
- Cuppage, J. et al. 1986. Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula. Ballyferriter
- Deane, T.N. 1893. A report on ancient monuments in Co. Kerry. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 19, 100-107.
- Du Noyer, G.V. 1858. On the remains of ancient stone-built fortresses and habitations occurring to the west of Dingle, Co. Kerry. Archaeological Journal 40, 1-24.
- 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
- Westropp, T.J. 1910. Promontory forts and similar structures of County Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 40, 179-213, 265-196
- Windele, J. (1848) Iar Mumhan, excursions in Kerry. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 11, 472-477.