What is recorded here

Knockbrack holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on a SW-facing slope beside a stream, marked by a scarp, possible fosse and a southern entrance with stone-facing. Overgrowth still chokes the interior and bank, hiding the full shape of the fort while the western gap suggests cattle may have moved through it. It is the kind of place where human hands made a small defensible world, then left it to pasture, rain and rumor.

In rough pasture, on a SW-facing slope, c. 10m E of a stream. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m), covered with overgrowth, defined by an earthen bank SE-E and by a scarp (H 1.45m) E-SE. The bank was difficult to examine due to the overgrowth. A possible fosse (Wth 2.3m) is visible in places, especially along the SW arc and NW-NE. The fosse at NW and SW splays outwards towards the stream to the NW and W, respectively. The external edge of the fosse is covered with overgrowth. There is a possible entrance through the bank at S. Possible stone-facing is evident on the internal face of the bank at either side of the entrance. The bank is broken by a possible cattle gap at W. The interior is completely covered with overgrowth. 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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