Cheval de frise at Dun Aonghase
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 05/2008
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What a location!
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 05/2008
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 05/2008
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 05/2008
The entrance to the fort
Image credit: Uwe Häberle 05/2008
Image credit: Bawn79 © 2007
Closer view of the “chevaux-de-frise”, July 1996.
Image credit: Roger Milton
The concentric walls with “chevaux-de-frise”, July 1996.
Image credit: Roger Milton
Insde the fort, July 1996.
Image credit: Roger Milton
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Extremely impressive fortification. Dun Aonghasa is semi circular as it backs on to a naseauatingly high cliff. There are several concentric walls and a chevaux de fris (sp?), an area of upstanding stones to prevent one from riding one’s horse toward the fort. Shame about the victorian butresses. The ground within the enclosure slopes towards the cliff.
Sites within 20km of Dun Aonghasa
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Kilmurvy
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Cill Mhuirbhigh/
Fearann an Choirce -
Oatquarter
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Cowragh Standing Stones
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Cowragh
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Dun Eochla
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Dún Dúchathair
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Kinbally Lower
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Museum
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Carrownpholleen
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Largy
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