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.
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