Dunbeg Fort

Dunbeg Fort ( Irish An Dun Beag - "Little Dun " ) in County Kerry in Ireland is an Iron Age Dun, which was used until the Middle Ages, and in the manner of a Promontory forts behind a separation of four, according to TB Barry, successively resulting earthworks five trenches on a promontory of the Dingle Peninsula.

The cliff near the village of Fahan here has a rocky projection, this is right on the R 559, the " Slea Head Road ".

Dunbeg considered part of the group of beehive huts in the near Fahan. The once round Dun, built of dry masonry, partly fallen victim to erosion. The internal step-like wall stretches is six feet thick and about three feet high. There are on both sides of the entrance small spaces inside the wall and the entrance has side holes into which a wooden beam could be inserted to support a door. In the passage is close to the ground a so-called " doghole ". Access is provided with a door lintel, the Macalister in 1898 believed to be the most remarkable in Ireland.

Within the Duns are the remains of a rectangular inside and outside round the house, a form which have the smaller Clochain in the monastery of Skellig Michael and the Clochán present na Carraige on the Aran Island of Inishmore. The area behind the barrage is relatively fundarm.

A roofed with large slabs 16.5 m long basement runs close from the inside to the outer wall.

Plants of the same name found in Ireland (eg in Killard Co. Clare, Ballynahinch Co. Down) and at Oban in Scotland.