What is recorded here

Six headlands south of Dún an Óir still wear faint neck cuts, suggesting human hands shaped the coast before memory failed. Earthen banks and forgotten ditches may have closed each tongue of land, turning ordinary rock into defensible rooms. The sea has since smoothed most angles, but the repetition remains: six places, six cuts, one repeated decision to control access.

Possible promontory fort described in 2002 as follows; 'A series of six headlands along the coast south of Dún an Óir all show very slight evidence of having been cut off from the mainland by either earthen banks or ditches. The two northernmost ones have low earthen banks and a levelled drystone wall crossing the neck. The adjacent broad rectangular one has the remains of a wide levelled straight bank and faint fosse across the neck while the southernmost one has a slightly curving filled-in fosse defending it. Recent earthen banks cut off the middle two, but vague evidence of earlier defences is also visible. Not enough remains to ascertain the exact nature of the remains but all headlands are potential promontory forts that deserve further investigation' (Casey 2002, 68 DD).

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