Structure in Dún Na Manach, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

Roughly oval bivallate rath KE054-082---- lies on the lower SE slopes of the Sea Hill ridge, overlooking Minard Head and Dingle Bay. Much of the interior is occupied by the confused and overgrown foundations of several structures. A D-shaped structure KE054-082001-, 5.6m x 3m internally, abuts the bank at NW, its walls now reduced to low grass-grown stony mounds. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 391.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE054-082001

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