What is recorded here

Knocknabehy holds a thirty-four metre earthen ring on a south-facing Cork slope, its broad entrance facing southeast while a field fence still skirts the overgrown bank. The earth rises one and a half metres above the inside, shaping a small world where people may have lived, hidden or simply marked the land before written memory. What is certain is that the ring survived, and what is lovely is that it still invites imagination.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (34m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.6m); external fosse survives as gentle slope in to base of bank. Bank heavily overgrown; entrance (Wth 7.6m) to SSE; gap (Wth 4m) to N. Field fence skirts bank E->W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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