Caherdorgan North
The reconstructed Caherdorgan North ( Irish Cathair Deargáin Thuaidh , also referred to as "Cathair Deargan stone fort"), about one kilometer south of Kilmalkedar , on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry in Ireland is on the R559 (road) and is still medieval used dun . The high dun overlooks Smerwick Harbor. Caher is the Anglicized form of the Irish word "cathair" (which in some regions of the island means Dun or Steinfort).
The dun lies on a leveled platform on a slope that slopes steeply to the west. Inside the roughly round dun (in the region the type is mostly called cashel) with a residual height of the outer wall made of dry stone in places 2.65 m high and 2.1 m wide are five (out of seven) somewhat preserved bases of clochans . The three middle clochans touch each other. The southernmost and largest has a (today) inaccessible basement at the base of the western wall . It is a system of underground passages and chambers or niches. In the case of basements , a distinction is made between "earth-cut", "rock-cut", "mixed", "stone built" and "wooden" (e.g. Coolcran, County Fermanagh ), which are often covered with stone slabs or wooden beams.
literature
- Judith Cuppage, Isabel Bennett: The Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula - A description of the field antiquities of the Barony of Corca Dhuibhne from the Mesolithic period to the 17th Century 1986.
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 113
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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 45.4 " N , 10 ° 20 ′ 22.2" W.