What is recorded here

Clearance stones and forgotten bones People moved rocks from nearby fields and dumped them along the south edge, changing the shape of a place already older than memory. The fairy fort in Ballyknockane keeps its circular form beneath scrub, with a narrow eastern gap where entry still seems possible. Local memory says burial happened there, though no marker remains to prove it. What is left is a low ring, partly buried by growth and patience, waiting for someone to stop treating it as ordinary waste.

In tillage, at base of NW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (26m E-W; c. 30m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.6m) NE->SSE, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.15m) SSE->WSW; enclosing element hidden by dense overgrowth WSW->NE. Field clearance stones have been dumped along foot of scarp at S and along external base of bank at NE. Gap in bank at E (Wth 2.1m). Interior covered by dense scrub. Site is depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as area planted with trees within demesne of Ballyknockane House. According to local information was once used as a burial ground. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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