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Promontory fort

Promontory fort, coastal

What is recorded here

A small squat south-facing promontory in County Kerry still wears a deep fosse and earthen bank, though the second bank has mostly surrendered to erosion. The seashore remains reachable, but almost no interior survives to confirm whether it was a fort at all. It sits beside fertile drained pasture where old cultivation marks still show through the grass. Whatever stood there has been reduced to a low ridge, a cut line and the sound of the sea behind it.
Possible promontory fort described in 2003 as follows; ‘A small squat lowlying south-facing grassy promontory is cut off from the adjacent land by a deep fosse and earthen bank. Traces of a second bank have largely been eroded away. The seashore is accessible from the site, which has almost no interior remaining. The nature of the remains is unclear, with not enough remaining to be certain of its provenance. The surrounding area is one of fertile cleared and drained pasture, with traces of previous cultivation visible’ (Casey 2003, 31, no. H).

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