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Tue 06 Jun 2004Department to assess damage done to pre-historic fortThe heritage section of the Department of the Environment and Local Government yesterday ordered an assessment of the damage done to a major pre-historic coastal promontory fort on the Dingle peninsula, Co Kerry, after some of the series of linear fortification earthwork was flattened during what is believed to be land reclamation activities.There was no ministerial preservation order on the Dún Mór promontory fort, a major coastal fort in use from around 1000 BC until the early Christian period, a spokesman for the Minister, Mr Cullen, said.