Ireland
The Emerald Isle
The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the major peninsulas in County Kerry & extends beyond the town of Dingle and also is the westernmost point in Ireland and it is said that the next parish over is in the United States. |
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IrelandThe Emerald Isle |
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I continued about the Dingle Peninsula with far too many wrong turns or missed turns& but eventually made my way back to the town of Dingle in time for dinner. |
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With all the backtracking, u-turns & getting lost along the roads and stopping for the scenery, it took me some time to navigate the peninsula. I think that person on the television travel series on PBS claimed it could be in a few hours but it took me most of the day but it was a lovely day. 
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This monument along the roads of the Dingle Peninsula is dedicated to the soldiers or warriors or Ireland is in the Gaelic tongue & commemorates the resistance to the British rule in Ireland. 
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This 2500 hundred year old Dunbeg Fort, or An Dùn Beag, is part of the Fahan group of Beehive Huts and is located on a cliff promontory in the Dingle Bay & may have been occupied as long ago as 800 BC and used continuously through the Celtic Period to the 10th Century. 
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The Dunbeg Fort was constructed without mortar with a slight downward tilt toward the outside of the building to allow rainwater to fall outside the structure and this construction is known as corbel vaulting. 
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