What is recorded here

Knockansweeny holds a circular earthen fort thirty-eight metres across on a scrub-covered hilltop. Two banks and ditches enclose the highest point of the land, though breaks in the eastern and north-eastern stone suggest entry or decay. The fairies may have built it, but human hands shaped the soil before myth renamed the work.

On top of a hill, covered in scrub; locally known as sandhill. Circular area (38m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.5m; middle bank: ext. H 1.3m) with intervening fosse; second intervening fosse and third earthen bank (H 0.8m) survives S->W. Break in inner bank and middle bank to E; second break (Wth 2m) in middle bank to NE. Interior incorporates top of hill, with highest point at centre; covered in ferns. 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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