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Notes on Irish architecture (1875)

Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1812-1871, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London, G. Bell and Sons · leaf 83

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in Dingle Bay, at the footof Mount Eagle, in the parish of Ventry and townland of Fahan. Thisgreat Cyclopean work consists of three ramparts and a massive stonewall, which reaches from cliff to cliff, and cuts off the promontory from 20 Dundee. the outside. [The relative proportions of these mounds… … Ground-plan and Section of Dunbec. which the promontory is composed.] The innermost rampart was faced with stones, and isabout 12 ft. thick. There is a causeway leading through these three ramparts to the door.

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