Thousands of years of heritage, but the clock is ticking for these priceless Dingle Peninsula sites
The EU-funded Cherish Project is excavating and documenting human habitation on Doon Point, a toe of land on the Dingle Peninsula in Kerry, even as it is being eroded by the wild Atlantic. Picture: The Cherish Project
A sharp cracking sound rips through the air for the second time that morning. Archaeologists excavating at Doon Point, west of Dingle in Co Kerry, know to look towards Sybil Head, or Ceann Sibéal, where another rockfall is cascading down the cliffs into the wild Atlantic below.
