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Mon 06 Jun 2004Gardai investigate destruction of prehistoric fort in KerryGardaí in Dingle, Co Kerry, are investigating the destruction of a major part of a 3,000-year-old promontory fort on the Dingle Peninsula.The Dún Mór coastal promontory fort is "hugely important and, so far as is known, the biggest coastal promontory fort in the country", according to an archaeologist, Mr Michael Gibbons. It overlooks the Blasket Islands and the Skelligs.