Dunbeg, county Kerry

V 350 973 - Sheet 70

Nearest village: Ventry

A view across excavations to the restored dry-stone wall with elaborate entrance and internal terraces.
The side-walls of the long, lintelled entrance are recessed to hold sliding defensive beams, and have guard-chambers on each side with squint-holes for surveillance of the passage. From below the passage a long souterrain leads out at least as far as the second of 4 parallel defensive stone-faced banks with ditches. You can see some of the lintels of this souterrain in the centre of the picture.
Inside the fort are remains of a large circular stone hut (clochán) with a square interior.