What is recorded here

Knockacullig South holds a broken ring where cattle still breathe through gaps in the earth. Its bank has become a field boundary, yet the inside remains level on a tilted hill, shaping life rather than resisting it. The forgotten passage at one side suggests the fort was never only a wall; it may have been a threshold, an entrance, a room beneath the ordinary.

In pasture, at the upper edge of a SSE-facing slope. Remains of a circular area (dims. c. 26m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) defined by a bank which is incorporated into a field boundary ESE->S->W->NW. Bank (Wth 4.35m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) has intermittent cattle breaches ESE->S->SW and is best preserved (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.3m) SW->NW; bank is levelled NW->N->ESE. Interior is generally level and is raised slightly at SSE to compensate for hillslope. Man-made underground passage (KE059-034001-) is located off-centre to SSE. Barely traceable remains of very low, inner scarp (Wth 1.0m; H 0.2m) and a possible intervening fosse (basal Wth 0.5m; total Wth 2.6m; Dth 0.2m) were recorded SSE->SSW. Monument is depicted as a curvilinear field boundary on historic mapping. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 14 November 2014

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