Ferriter's Castle: Kerry 2021

Ferriter's Castle and Promontory Fort is located on the Ballyferriter Headland, Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry. Doon Point / Dún an Fheirtéaraigh is a long, narrow promontory extending slightly over 500 m SW from the mainland. This prehistoric fort is one of 95 coastal promontory forts in County Kerry, with a Mesolithic-Neolithic site at the nearby Ferriter's Cove. There are a number of hut sites and archaeological features visible within the boundaries of the fort, many heavily impacted by erosion. Reuse of the fort occured by the 16th Century when the Anglo-Norman Feriter family constructed a castle. The site was surveyed during the CHERISH excavation which included a trenches across the ditches of the older promontory fort and a hut site near the southwest tip of the promontory. Ferriter's Castle and surrounding area were surveyed in May 2021 using an eBee plus and S.O.D.A. camera with a ground sampling distance of 2.5 cm. Sources of information includes: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/