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Dunbeg Fort
52.1034° N, -10.4086° E
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Dunbeg Fort (Irish: An Dún Beag) is a promontory fort built in the Iron Age near the modern village of Ventry in County Kerry, Ireland.
Paleolithic
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Iron Age
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c. 1000 BCE
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c. 580 BCE
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c. 800 AD
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10th century AD
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1858
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January 2014
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December 2017 – January 2018
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