What is recorded here

Knockavurra Glebe holds a thirty-metre earthen ring where local people once imagined fairies danced. The solid earth rises four metres above the surrounding field, creating a private chamber that human hands may have shaped into houses or passages. Animals graze the outer land while the inner space remains slightly higher, waiting for someone to walk the narrow southeast entrance and test whether memory or myth lives inside the stones.

Internal diameter 30m N-S, 31m E-W Situated in the SE corner of a large pastoral field with fieldbanks lying immediately E and S, this site consists of a circular space enclosed by an earthen bank c 7m wide at the base and rising to a maximum 2.6m above the interior and 4.2m above the external ground level. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land and access is gained by a 1.7m wide entrance to the SE which would appear to have been stone lined. There are at least three mounds constructed of stones in the interior, suggesting either Man-made underground passage (KE020-066001-) or house-site remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 687. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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