Dooneen, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Kerry

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Internal diam. 21.7m N-S, 22.5m E-W Dooneen/An Dúinín: This heavily overgrown circular rath is located on top of a low rise on the SW slopes of Letter South, providing an excellent outlook over Kenmare Bay to S. The enclosing fosse averages 2m wide and falls .3m below external ground level. The bank, composed of earth and stone, rises to an average external height of 2.5m and is up to 3m in basal width. Regularly coursed drystone facing revets its inner flank. This has collapsed in places, but elsewhere it is preserved from .45m to 1m high. It is not clear if the much eroded gap at SE marks the location of the original entrance to the rath. It is locally reputed that there is a Man-made underground passage (KE092-005001-) at this site, but no surface trace of it is evident. Cork University Press (1996), no. 544.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE092-005

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