What is recorded here

Knockaneacoolteen holds a broad earthen ring where two banks and deep ditches enclose a forgotten chamber. Grass and shadow have claimed the middle, but the stones along the southwest arc still mark the edge of a place set apart from ordinary pasture. People may have lived there, feared it or simply avoided it; the land kept the shape regardless.

In pasture. A circular area (c. 37m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse and an outer fosse. The inner bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1m) has rough stone-facing on its internal face along the SW arc. The intervening fosse (Wth 2.4m), the outer bank (Wth 6.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1m) and the outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m) occur all around. An intermittent rise (H 0.1m) is visible outside the outer fosse along the SW arc. The interior is heavily covered with overgrowth and there is a possible hut site (KE039-090001-) in the SW quadrant. 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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