What is recorded here

Doonywealaun is a narrow coastal promontory fort in County Kerry, Ireland. It measures fifty-four metres long but rarely exceeds six metres wide, forcing anyone inside to face the sea or the landward bank. That thin shape turns the whole site into a trap where clarity, not size, decides whether a person lives or drowns.

Doonywealaun/Dún Uí Mhaoláin: This small promontory juts SW into Ventry Harbour a little W of Paddock Point. It measures 54m long x generally no more than 6m wide and, at the landward end, a bank and outer fosse extend for 16m from cliff edge to cliff edge. The fosse is .9m deep, c. 2.7m wide at base and c. 1.5m deep below the top of the bank. The bank rises c. 0.7m above the interior. A 1m wide berm is traceable along the outer face of the bank. A causewayed entrance crosses the defences providing access to the interior. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 279. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

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