What is recorded here

Knocknagapple holds a D-shaped earthen fort clinging to the edge of a six-metre precipice, where a farm road still scrapes past its eastern scarp. The straight northern boundary is not a wall but a sudden drop into shadow, suggesting the builders trusted the cliff as much as their own labour. A 1773 map called it a Danish Fort, yet no invasion is recorded there; the name may be merely a guess born of distance. The earth rises two metres at the east and melts to a ridge at the west, shaping a space that could have held a household, a hermit, or a child imagining a fortress.

In an overgrown fallow area of a field at the edge of a steep precipice. Indicated as a circular 'Danish Fort' a 1773-4 map (no. 23) by B. Scalé (NLI MSS 7216-18). The remains consist of a raised D-shaped area (12.5m N-S), with the straight side at N (L 19m), defined by a scarp E-W. The height of the scarp varies between 0.35m and c. 2m, being highest towards the E. On the straight N side the rath is defined by a steep precipice (H c. 6m) that drops down to a valley floor. The interior slopes gently down to the N. There is a N-S farm roadway immediately to the E of the rath. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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