What is recorded here

Knockmonalea West holds a broken earthen ring above a steep southern slope, its eastern bank surrendered to a modern field fence. The remaining scarps and raised interior suggest humans shaped the land long before pasture covered the remains. Fairy fort is the local name, but the structure is a human ringfort, perhaps domestic, perhaps defensive, now reduced to a circular memory in grass.

In pasture, on level ground, above steep S-facing slope. Roughly circulararea (29.3m N-S; 26.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m) NW->E; scarp (H 1.8m) SE->W. Field fence replaces bank E->SE. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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