What is recorded here

Enclosure in Knocknacolan: subcircular, forty metres across, with two straight sides and two curved, beside a ringfort. Whether it held cattle, tools, a household or a boundary for a field, people shaped the soil there and left the line behind.

Cropmark of fosse of subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989): corners rounded; SE and NW sides linear; NE and SW sides curved and slightly curved respectively. Ringfort (12675) c. 170m to S. 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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