What is recorded here

Knockmanagh holds a broken earthen ring on a south-facing slope, watching Mangerton Mountain and Macgillycuddy's Reeks through gorse, briars and old field lines. Its causewayed entrance, uneven floor and hidden underground passage suggest people lived, worked and perhaps fled there before the land was divided again. The fairies may have taken the story, but the shape still keeps its own quiet boundary.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views to Mangerton Mountain and Macgillycuddy's Reeks. A raised oval area (32m E-W; c. 27m N-S) is enclosed by an overgrown inner earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m) SE-SSW and by traces of an overgrown inner bank SW-NW. Intermittent traces of an intervening fosse (Wth 2.1m) is evident SE-NW and an outer bank (Wth 2.65m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2.1m) surviving SE-NW is obscured by overgrowth. The enclosing elements are truncated along the N arc by an overgrown E-W field boundary. A NNW-SSE overgrown field boundary truncates the enclosing elements and a small portion of the interior NNE-SE. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SE. There is a break in the bank at WNW and a break in the field boundary leading to the interior at N. The surface of the interior is uneven and partially obscured by gorse and briars. A hut site (KE067-009002-) and Man-made underground passage (KE067-009001-) are in the interior off centre to the SW. 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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