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Sat 03 Mar 2010Inis Mór's lesser known fort is a cliffhanger
HIDDEN GEMS:HAD DOUGLAS ADAMS visited Dún Dúchathair he may well have ended up writing about “the fort at the end of the world”.
Standing on the southern cliff edge of Inis Mór, with windswept grey limestone at your back and a sheer vertical drop to the steely Atlantic crashing below, you could be forgiven for imagining that civilisation was wiped out long ago and that this lonely outpost is the site of the last battle between land and crashing sea.
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