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Promontory fort

Promontory fort, coastal

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Promontory fort in County Kerry, Ireland. A double wall or bank and fosse cut off an area south of a natural swallow hole, while a second headland to the north showed a depression across a narrow isthmus. Those marks appeared only from the air and resisted ground verification, hiding inside mountainous bog and outcropping rock beneath higher eastern land.
Possible promontory fort described in 2003 as follows; ‘A double wall or bank and fosse can be seen cutting off an area south of a natural swallow hole. A second headland immediately to the north has a depression running across the narrow isthmus. These were seen only from the air and could not be verified on the ground. The area is one of mountainous bog and outcropping rock. The site is overlooked by higher ground to the east' (Casey 2003, 33, no. J)'

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