What is recorded here

Knockbarry holds a broken ring where a roadway cut through ancient certainty. Three beech trees still stand on the surviving bank, witnessing the loss rather than resisting it. The missing half does not need explaining; it left the way roads and fields take what they want.

In level pasture, in demesne of Highfort House. Semicircular area (straight side 29.7m N-S; projecting 17.7m to W) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m) S->SW and by low scarp SW->N and by roadway to E. Three mature beech trees growing on bank. Cottage on opposite side of road; no evident remains to suggest site once formed a complete circle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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