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Embanked enclosure in Knocknanool

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

On a rise of an undulating and interrupted E-W esker ridge. Circular overgrown platform (diam. 49m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown earth an stone bank (at WNW: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) largely obscured by field spoil, which was originally surrounded by a fosse and outer bank (Gannon 1972) which have now been backfilled. There is no identifiable original entrance, but some old field walls survive in the interior. A rectangular setting of stones (RO048-146002-) N of the centre may indicate its use as a children's burial ground as reported locally (ibid.). Cashel (RO048-147----) is c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO048-146001

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Photo credits
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mountbellew Golf Club; photographer not stated, Mountbellew Golf Club
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hyacinth45 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Photographer not named by Glenamaddy GAA club blog, glenamaddygaaclub.blogspot.com
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