What is recorded here

Dooneen, a coastal promontory fort south of Brown's Castle in County Kerry, wore a crescent of stone three metres wide and eighty centimetres high above a shallow fosse. A one-metre causeway cut through the defence, inviting traffic across the very barrier built to stop it. Westropp found the bank already levelled in 1910, and the sea has since taken what remained. The fort exists now only in measurement and memory, its stones scattered into the ordinary ground.

Westropp (1910, 315-16) mentions a promontory fort just S of Brown's Castle (KE009-024002-). This headland appears to have been known as 'Dooneen' and consisted of a crescent-shaped bank, constructed of stone and measuring c3m wide and .8m high, with a shallow fosse about .2m in width and .8m deep. A causeway, 1m in width, traversed the fosse and rampart. Even when Westropp visited here in 1910 it was very much levelled, and today no surface trace of these features survive. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 112. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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