Dunbeg Fort

Dún Beag—meaning 'small fort'—is a promontory fort built on a narrow headland projecting into Dingle Bay on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, dramatically perched on 28-metre cliffs overlooking the Atlantic. Radiocarbon evidence from charcoal deposits suggests initial construction in the Iron Age, with a wood sample from beneath the defensive ditch dated to around 580 BC. The fort's primary...