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What is recorded here

Dúinín projects thirty metres into Bantry Bay, wearing a broken ring of earth and stone around its neck while the sea chews its clay sides. Trees and bushes strangle the fort now, hiding the shallow fosse that once marked the boundary between the land and the water. The ocean takes a little more each storm, carrying ancient soil out to feed unknown depths. What remains is a temporary landmark, measured in centuries rather than millennia, waiting to disappear entirely.

On a headland (L c. 30m), overgrown by trees and bushes, projecting SE into Bantry Bay. The remains of a fosse (Wth c. 1.5m; D 0.3m; L c. 15m) extend across the neck of the headland. According to local information, the promontory, known as Dúinín, is being eroded by the sea along its NW and NE sides, where boulder clay is exposed. (O'Sullivan 1992, 53) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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