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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockeenbwee Lower

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Knockeenbwee Lower holds a circular earthen ringfort twenty-one metres wide, its one-metre bank now buried under thick growth. The interior remains inaccessible, hiding whatever life or loss triggered its building. A forgotten household may have stood there, raising a defensible wall against neighbours or weather before disappearing entirely. The fort still marks the field, waiting for someone to clear the vegetation and ask what it protected.
Circular area (21m E-W; 19m N-S) enclosed by overgrown bank (int. H to E 1m). Interior heavily overgrown; inaccessible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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