What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockaneacoolteen stands in County Kerry, Ireland. The site is a circular earthwork on a south-facing slope, with an inner bank and a possible outer rise about nine metres away. People may have lived there, marked territory there, or simply walked past a shape the land had already made.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A circular area (c. 26m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a low rise (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.25m) NNW-SSW which resembles a levelled bank and by a field boundary (int. H 1.4m) SSW-NNW which may retain some of the original bank. A possible outer bank, visible as a rise (ext. H c. 1m) along its E and S arcs, is situated c. 9m outside the inner bank. The interior slopes down to the S. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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